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It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
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A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
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Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
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