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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
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)
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
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
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
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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.
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Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
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
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
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 strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Sadness is nothing more than the absence of joy
in the same way that darkness
is nothing more than the absence of light.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
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)
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 bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
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