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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)
Related topics: Spiritual Live-By Unity
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
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 [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
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
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
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
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
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
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
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
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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)
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)
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
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
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
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
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
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
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney Harris
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
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