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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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)
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
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
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
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.
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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 either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear "you have to...",
I say that there is nothing I "HAVE TO" do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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