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All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb) 
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
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If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
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
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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)
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)
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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)
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
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
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
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
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
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