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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
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
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
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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
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)
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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 ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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