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Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
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Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I hear "you have to...",
I say that there is nothing I "HAVE TO" do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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