WISDOM Part 1 (A-A)
WISDOM Part 1 (A-A)
(other parts B-Z also available)
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INTRODUCTION The concept of the Millennium has a different significance for different people. But all groups and sections would probably agree that it is critical that the Human Race learns the lessons of history, if we wish to live within an environment that we might be able to call progress over the years, decades, even millennia, ahead. The Human Race has come along way in the last 1000 years. It has come even further 100,000 but, although you cannot have change without progress, it is certainly not the case that all change can be defined as progress. Progress involves value judgments about what is considered to be 'right' or 'good'. You can only have progress if you know where you are going. However, it is now increasingly recognised that, unless our rate of learning is greater than the rate of change, it is very unlikely that we will be able to equate change with progress. Today, there are many who argue, with some justification, that the New Millennium provides the Human Race with the greatest learning point in history. Never before has so much intellectual effort been focused on two key questions: Where have we come from? and Where are we going? In attempting to distil 'The Wisdom of the World' as reflected by the sayings of those who have considered these issues, both practically and philosophically over past millennia, it is clear that many (perhaps even all?) of the important messages about the state and future of the Human Race were made over a thousand years ago, in China, in the Middle East and other parts of the world where sophisticated societies had developed. Of course, in the last 1000 years there have been enormous changes, and an enormous increase in what has been written, but are we really any the wiser. Has all this increased effort and experience been translated into effective learning and greater wisdom? This remains an open question. Perhaps we can be optimistic if we accept the comment of Count Oxenstierna, (Swedish Statesman,1648) "Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?" Yet how much better the world would be if we could make just a small improvement. As a small contribution to this process I have collected together several thousand messages, or quotations, that attempt to focus on what it would be useful for us all to learn, and then pass on to future generations - if we are seriously concerned about trying to make the world a better place in the future. They are suggestions for debate; they do not pretend, in any way, to be, to be definitive. It is, however, important to make several points on the quotations themselves. First there is often some uncertainty over the original source of the quotation. If anyone wishes to take issue with the source please let me know. The exercise is attempting to be as precise as possible, but the core message in this exercise is the message itself. This reflects: "Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said." (Thomas a Kempis, 1379-1471, De Imitatione Christi). The message is what we really want to pass on. Unfortunately, it is a reflection of our times that some people are more concerned with attribution than with ensuring the message is passed on. There are many problems over the origin of some remarks and who said it first. Sometimes, even when the quotation itself is well recognised, research shows that it was based on an earlier version, with a very minor modification. For example, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is attributed to having said: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." While a very similar remark is attributed, many centuries earlier, to the Roman Poet, Marcus Lucan (39-65) who is quoted as saying: "Pygmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves." And another version attributed to Bernard of Chartres c1120 AD is: "We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." These differences not only emphasises the point that we need to focus on the message, rather than the messenger, but the theme of all three versions is at the very core of this exercise as a whole. It is also possible that more than one source is given for exactly the same quotation; over time these which be brought together. But: "If we still have not learned the lessons of 2000 years of history, why should we suddenly start being able to learn it now?" (Anon) Perhaps that quotation is right? However, the case for making an effort is overwhelming. The New Millennium is a unique opportunity. We cannot afford to ignore it. Surely, at the very least, things would be much worse if we didn't even try! Again grounds for optimism? The important messages appear to be relatively simple. But that could also support the case for pessimism, as history appears to shows that it is incredibly easy to ignore the wisdom and learning of earlier Millennia. This point also reflects the view that, unfortunately, it is much easier to recycle the words than to put them, effectively, into practice. The world needs more people who not only understand the importance of wisdom but are also able to be wise through their ability to apply wisdom effectively in practice.
(“How a Ganges guru taught me the value of constant learning” by Martin Leuw, The Times p41. “Along the banks of Ganges I came across a guru asking crowd: ‘How would you define a wise person?’ After the usual age-related responses someone said: ‘A wise person is not someone who thinks they know everything, but someone who is incessantly curious, questioning and open to continuous learning.”)
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Dr Bruce Lloyd, Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University. 103 Borough Road, London SE1OAA,UK. tel: 02078158240. e-mail:[email protected] ( original list June 1999) (Notes: 1. The whole issue of copyright is also obviously important and, if anyone feels that their rights in this area have in any way be infringed please get in contact. I do hope anyone affected will support the principle of this initiative and recognise that, in this case, the interest of future generations should be our paramount consideration. 2. The currently list available on the World Future Society web site - www.wfs.org. Current contributions obtained through this channel are denoted by 'submitted by and/or wfs'; further suggestions/comments are most welcome, particularly to overcome the weakness from the over reliance on 'Western' sources which, with time, it is hoped to correct. 3. Some quotations have been modified slightly to remove the unnecessary and outdated sexism; where it is possible, without changing the meaning, these quotations are marked with a (*). 4. A number of quotations are attributed to 'Anon' and, if anyone can identify a specific source, this information would be most welcome. 5. A few of the quotations also include some details on the source information and this area can be developed in the future; but the core messages are the prime concern of this exercise. 6. An article ‘The Knowledge Economy: What has Wisdom got to do with It?’ at the end of the exercise, attempts to show how these ideas are important, in both theory and practice, as they influence the way individuals and organisations operate within any society, particularly as we are increasingly concerned with issues related to 'The Knowledge Economy'. )
Quotations: THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." Abbey, Edward “A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest person cannot answer.”
Abbott, J. (*)
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"Service makes people competent." Abbott, Lyman "Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery." Abel, John Jacob * "By doubting, we come to examine, and by examining, so we perceive the truth." Abelard, Peter
(Or: “The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”) "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." Acheson, Dean “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Ackerman, Diane
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"Don't ask who said it? ASK what they said." Acquinas, Thomas (via Michael Oakshott, through wfs web site, see note 2, below) "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." Lord Acton "Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history." Lord Acton “We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Adams, Abigall (letter to John Adams, 1774)
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or obtained with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." Adams, Donald A. "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." Adams, Franklin P. "It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seek kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, which spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds -- and let us never forget it!" Adams, George Matthew "People do not get tired out from working where the work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's worry and lack of interest in what one does that tire and discourage. Every one of us should have our pet interests -- as many as we can handle efficiently and happily. Our interests should never be allowed to lag or get cold so that all enthusiasm is spent. Each day can be one triumph if you keep up to your interests -- feeding them as they feed you." Adams, George Matthew "The only institution that lasts a long time, does good and useful work, and is profitable, is one that is, and has been, well organised. You get the feel of this immediately you visit such a place ... In such an organisation there is always strength. Especially is this true in regard to a well-organized human being; they don't waste their substance, but are forever improving their mind and giving and radiating confidence ... The organized person organizes their day as they do themselves. Thus it is that they make the most of their time and go to their bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal. How happy we can make our own lives, and the lives of those about us, merely by self-organization." Adams, George Matthew "What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you." Adams, George Matthew "A friend in power is a friend lost." Adams, Henry Brooks "A teacher affects eternity. They can never tell where their influence stops."(*) Adams, Henry Brooks
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." Adams, Henry Brooks "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of humour that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." Adams, Henry Brooks "What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn." Adams, Henry Brooks “We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise person tries every day what they have proved wrong the day before.”
Adam, James Truslow
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* “If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.”
Adams, George Matthew
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* “We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.”
Adams, George Matthew
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"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it and how we live before it." Adams, Jane "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all people."(*) Adams, Jane "While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is little better understood and little better practised now than three or four thousand years ago." Adams, John "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." Adams, John Quincy
* "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." Adams, John Quincy
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* "We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal." Adams, Samuel Hopkins
* "Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." Adams, Scott
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." Addison, Jane "A person should always consider how much they have more than they want, and how much more unhappy they might be than they really are." Addison, Joseph "Mirth is like a flash of lightening that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Addison, Joseph "One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter." Addison, Joseph "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love; and something to hope for." Addison, Joseph "There is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them." Addison, Joseph "Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing the period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a person of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honours, then to retire." Addison, Joseph " 'We are always doing', they say, 'something for Posterity', but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."(*) Addison, Joseph "The good Lord set definite limits on a person's wisdom, but set no limits on their stupidity and that's just not fair."() Adenauer, Konrad "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Adler, Alfred "There is a Law that people should love their neighbour as themselves. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to the human race as breathing or the upright gait; but if we do not learn it we will perish."(*) Adler, Alfred "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not words. Trust movement." Adler, Alfred "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from life. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect it to give you any insight you do not already possess." Adler, Alfred "How rare, people with the character to praise a friend's success without a trace of envy." Aeschylus (525-456BC) "It is always in season for old men to learn ... It is a fine thing even for an old man to learn wisdom." Aeschylus
* “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
Aeschylus
“It is best for the wise person not to seem wise.”()
Aeschylus
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* “It is good for even old men to learn wisdom.”
Aeschylus
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"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." Aeschylus “Wise is the person who knows useful things, not the one who knows a lot.”(*)
Aeschylus
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* "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." Aesop
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well that comes from poor judgment." Aesop "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow." Aesop
* “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
* “Service is the rent we pay for living.”
African-American proverb
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* “Those who forgive end the quarrel.”
African proverb
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"If the leader of the hunting party gets tired, then all are tired." African proverb "If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm." African proverb * "It takes an entire village to teach a child." African proverb, (submitted by Beoit Couture) (Or ‘It takes a whole society to raise a leader’, African Proverb)
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* "Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." African proverb
* "When there is no energy within, the enemies outside hurt you." African proverb
* “Wisdom does not come overnight”
African proverb
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* "God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed."
African (West) proverb
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* "Service is the rent we pay for living."
African - American proverb
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"The truth which makes people free is for the most part the truth which people prefer not to hear."() Agar, Herbert
* “Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.”
Agno, John G.
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* “What can we learn from them? Passion. Dedication. Accuracy. Time Management.”
Agrawal, Pawan: Lunch is served by David Pilling and Avantika Chilkoti, on Mumbai dabbawalas deliverers....
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* “Power comes from calmness, not muscle.”
Aikido, Master
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"Everyone lives downstream from someone else." American saying "If you plant turnips you will not harvest grapes". Akan proverb * “To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest Wisdom & those that increaseth their riches, increaseth their cares, but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth is not.”
Akhenaton
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?* "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us." Alain-Fournier
* “He who searches for wisdom is wise; he who thinks he has found it is a fool.”
AL-ARABI, IBN an ancient Sufi
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"Aloneness is inevitable in being human. People cannot accept this. They should be aware of it and use it. It heightens your perception." Albee, Edward "I have had wealth, rank and power but if these were all I had, how wretched I should be." Prince Albert, (1819-61. Dying words of ... ) * "A single atom of the sweetness of wisdom in a person's heart is better than a thousand pavilions in Paradise." al-Bistami, Abu Yazid
"We won’t remember you for the size of your wallet as much as for the size of your heart." al-Bistami, Abu Yazid "Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure." Alcott, Amos Bronson "The less of routine, the more of life." Alcott, Amos Bronson "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Alcott, Louisa May. "A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into a earthly paradise." Aldington, Richard "Patriotism is a lively sense of responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dung hill." Aldington, Richard "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -- that is to triumph over old age." Aldrich, Thomas Bailey "The price of power is responsibility for the public good." Aldrich, Winthrop W.
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* “Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn’t open, it doesn’t work.”
Aldrin Buzz , Apollo 11 astronaut??
* “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question, and not finding it, than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Alexander, Lloyd
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"True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be." Alger, William R. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
Ali, Mohammed
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.”()
Allen, George
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* “All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve is the direct result of your own thoughts.”
Allen, James
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* "Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought." Allen, James
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.”()
Allen, James
"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart -- this you will build your life by, this you will become." Allen, James “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
Allen, James
* "Eighty Percent of success is showing up." Allen, Woody
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"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Allen, Woody "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Allen, Woody * “If you don’t take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.”
Allenbaugh, Eric
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* “You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviours and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.”
Allenbaugh, Eric
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* "What is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
Allende, Isabel
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* "In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others; for justice allowed at home is not likely to be correct abroad." Allston, Washington
* “Leadership involves remembering past mistakes, an analysis of today’s achievements and a well grounded imagination in visualising the problem of the future.”
Allyn, Stanley C.
(‘learning from past mistakes ...’ bl)
"Today the most useful person in the world is the man or woman who knows how to get along with other people. Human relations is the most important science in the broad curriculum of living." Allyn, Stanley C. "Love is just one of the aspects of essence. We don't want you just to be loving. If you have love but you have no will, your love will not be real. If you have will but no love, you will be powerful and strong but without any idea of real humanity. If you have love and will but no objective consciousness, then your love and will may be directed toward the wrong things. Only the development of all the qualities will enable us to become full, true human beings." Ali, Hameed
* “Amongst all the able, none are so powerless as those who will not act.”
Al-Mutanabi, 10th century poet.
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"No ruling class in the whole of history has given up power voluntarily and I don't see that changing." Ali, Tariq "Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire." Al-Sadat, Anwar
* “The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love the past implies faith in the future.”
Ambrose, Stephen E.
"The just person is a person unto them selves, and they do not need to summon the law from afar, for they carry it enclosed in their heart." St Ambrose “Before we can truly understand another person, we must walk a mile in their moccasins. Before we can walk in their moccasins, we must take off our own.”
American Indian saying
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"People have responsibilities, not power" () American Indian Proverb "If a person's foresight were as good as their hindsight, we would all get somewhere." American proverb "Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with." American proverb * "Bulls can make money. Bears can make money. Pigs always get slaughtered." American saying
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"Everyone lives downstream from someone else." American saying "Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." Amiel, Henri Frederic (Swiss writer 1821-1881) * Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”
Amiel, Henri Frederic ( Or today … ‘know where to go for it on the internet.’ bl)
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"Those who ask of life nothing but the improvement of their own nature ... are less liable to miss and waste life." Amiel, Henri Frederic "To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." Amiel, Henri Frederic
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* “Without passion, people are a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
Amiel, Henri Frederic
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* “Life doesn’t kick you around. You kick yourself around.”
Amos, Wally
* “That a person is a success who follows their dreams
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Anderson, Bessie
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* “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.”
Anderson, Greg
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* “Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.”
Anderson J.D.
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* “People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.”
Anderson, Sparky
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* “One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”
Anderson, Walter Truett (author, The Next Enlightenment0?
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* "If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough"
Andretti, Mario
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"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently." Angelou, Maya "Everybody in the world wants the same thing ... to be needed ... a job that he/she can do well ... to love somebody .... everybody .... There's no mystery." Angelou, Maya "History, despite its wrench and pain, cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Angelou, Maya "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain." Angelou, Maya
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* "I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.." Angelou, Maya
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"In all my work what I try to say is that, as human beings, we are more alike than we are unlike." Angelou, Maya "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Angelou, Maya
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* "I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
Angelou, Maya
(‘Character, like strategy, is in the detail.’ bl)
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* "There is something gracious and graceful about serving ... the truth is, our history has been the history of the servers ... In Africa it is a great honour to serve.' Angelou, Maya
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"To live is not just to survive, but to thrive with passion, compassion, some humour and style." Angelou, Maya We Gather Together/We Continue To Know is to comprehend. Do you know, do you comprehend, In this moment, who or what you serve? We all must be serving someone or something, Whom or what are you choosing to serve right now? It takes courage to ask this question of yourself. But without courage, you can't practice Any other value consistently. Angelou, Maya * "When people show you who they are, believe them." Angelou, Maya
* “When we cast our bread upon the waters,
we can presume that someone downstream,
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From our action.”
Angelou, Maya * "I always say don’t make plans, make options.”
Aniston, Jennifer
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* “I think it’s extremely important to forgive. Otherwise it just builds up like toxic waste. There’s nothing worse than holding a grudge.”
Aniston, Jennifer
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"Things get better when enough people decide that they should get better. Things change when ordinary people come together in a common purpose." Annan, Kofi, (Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1999-.) "A bend in the road, is not the end of the road ... unless you fail to make the turn." Anon * "A candle loses nothing by lighting another." Anon
"Activity is the best antidote for fear." Anon ? “A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”
Anon
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* “Adversity makes a person wise – not rich.”
Anon
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* "Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most always like it the least." Anon
*? “A first step to being wise is loving wisdom.”
Anon
* “After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.”
Anon
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"A gardener is an optimist by nature" Anon “Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.”
Anon
(‘Age is a high price to pay for maturity and wisdom’ Anon)
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* "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove ... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of someone in the next generation." Anon
* “All advice that comes from a caring heart is wise”
Anon (BL) (or: “Wisdom starts from a caring heart.”)
"All progress requires change but not all change is progress." Anon “A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must be a lover of books.”
Anon
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* "A little push in the right direction can make a big difference." Anon
* "All things by immortal power are To one another joined So that one cannot disturb a flower Without the troubling of a star." Anon
* “All who appreciate the wonders of creation are experiencing the creator.”
Anon
* “Always Remember: be kind, be fair, be honest, be true, & all of these things will come back to you.”
Anon
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* “Always try to help a friend in need; Believe in yourself; Study hard; Give lots of kisses; Laugh often; Don’t be overly concerned with your weight, it’s just a number; Always try to see the glass half full; Meet new people, even if they look different to you; Remain calm, even when it seems hopeless; Take lots of naps; Be weird whenever you have the chance; love your friends, no matter who they are; Don’t waste food; RELAX; Take an occasional risk; Try to have a little fun each day ...it’s important; Share? a joke with friends; Fall in love with someone; .... and say ‘I love you’ often; Express yourself creatively; Be conscious of your appearance; Always be up for surprises; Love someone with all of your heart; Share with friends; Watch your step; It will get better; There is someone who loves you more than you know; Exercise to keep fit; Live up to your name; Seize the Moment; Hold on to good friends – they are few and far between; Indulge in the things you truly love; Cherish every Sunday; At the end of the day ... PRAY; And smile at least once a day!”
Anon
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"A mistake at least proves somebody stopped talking long enough to do something." Anon "Any reform that does not result in the exact opposite of what it was intended to do must be considered a success." Anon * "Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children." Anon
* “Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you.”
Anon
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* “A person does not look for wisdom unless they are wise.”
Anon
(‘But many people are wise even though they are not looking for Wisdom’. bl)
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* “A person that values their privileges above their principles soon loses both.”
Anon
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"A person who does nothing never has time to do anything." () Anon "A person who sows seeds of kindness enjoys a perpetual harvest."() Anon
* "A person who wants to lead the orchestra must be willing to face the music." Anon (BL)
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“A person with wisdom is better off than a stupid person with any amount of charms and superstition.”()
Anon
* “Apologising does not always mean you are wrong. It just means that you value your relationships more than your ego.”
Anon
(Actually it really ought to be ‘... not always men you think you are wrong....’bl)
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* “A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.”
Anon
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* "A problem properly defined is well on its way to being solved." Anon ("A problem is a challenge waiting for someone to take advantage of the opportunity." BL)
* "Are your children equipped to carry the burden of your dreams." Anon (In Arthur C. Clarke's 'Childrens End')
* "Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Dialogue reveals the truth, argument creates it." Anon
* “As a person grows wiser they talk less and say more.”
Anon
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* “A Short Course in Human Relations:
The 6 most important words: I admit I was wrong.
The 5 most important words: You did a great job.
The 4 most important words: What do you think?
The 3 most important words: Could you please.
The 2 most important words: Thank you!
The most important word: We
The least important word: I”
Anon
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* “A smile is a curve in the road that sets things straight.”
Anon
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* "A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it."
Anon
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* "A smile is the world's most effective face lift."
Anon?? (BL) * “As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
Anon
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* "A teacher sees tomorrow in a child's eye."
Anon "A teacher took my hand, gave me a book, touched my heart, and saved my soul." Anon "Attitudes are contagious ... is yours worth catching."
Anon * "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Anon
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“A wise person can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.”()
Anon
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* “A women worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.”
Anon
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* “Beauty is not in the face but it is the glow (/light) in the heart.”
Anon
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* “Being the richest person in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed saying we’ve done something wonderful .... that matters to me.”
Anon
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* “Be Kind. No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.”
Anon
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* “Be more aware of your responsibilities than you are of rights.”
Anon
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* “Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.”
Anon
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* “Be the first one to ask a question.”
Anon
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* “Build other leaders around you. A great leader is lifted upon the shoulders of others and not by walking over the bodies of their ?victims.”
Anon
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* “Bureaucracy is natures’ way of saying that you’re not to be trusted.”
Anon
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* “But two things stand out like stone .... Kindness in another’s troubles;
Courage in your own.”
Anon
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* “By the time someone is wise enough to watch their step, they’re too old to go anywhere.”
Anon
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* "Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man and Communism is the complete opposite." Anon
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* “Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”
Anon
* “Children are always the only future the human race has; teach them well.”
Anon
* “Children are the living messages to a time we will not see.”
Anon
"Children spend too little time listening to their elders and too much time attempting to imitate them." Anon ("Don't do as I do, do as I say" ... not the base from which to expect effective learning!) “ Citizenship involves duties and obligations as well as rights.”
Anon
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* “Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.”
Anon
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* "Commitment is the love that binds energy and desire." Anon
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* "Confess that you were wrong yesterday; it will show that you are wise today." Anon
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* “Content is king but context is the kingdom.”
Anon
* "Courtesy is the shortest distance between two people." Anon
* “Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.”
Anon
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* “Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom.”
Anon
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* "Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down." Anon
* “Decisions taken today are driven by our visions of tomorrow and based on what we learned yesterday.”
Anon (BL)
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* “Dedicate your remaining years to seeing the world as a better place, rather than making it better. When you see it so, you begin to make it so.”
Anon
* "Destiny is not a mater of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be created." Anon
* "Dignity does not consist of possessing honours but in deserving them." Anon
"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Anon “Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.”
Anon
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* “Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength.”
Anon
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* “Don’t argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.”
Anon
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* “Don’t forget that you become a prisoner of your definition of success.”
Anon (BL)
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* "Don't let the past hold you back, you’re missing the good stuff." Anon
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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." Anon “Don’t talk unless you believe you can improve the silence.”
Anon
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* “Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry you retire.”
Anon
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* “Don’t try to be the best in the world, try to be the best for the world.”
Anon
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* “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
Anon
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* “Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.”
Anon
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* “Effective learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage.”
Anon (BL et al)
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* “Empowerment is responsible freedom …. A balance between rights and responsibilities.”
Anon
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* "Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal." Anon
(as far as we know ....BL)
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"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Anon "Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence." Anon * “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.”
Anon
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"Everyone must be responsible for there own actions and the consequences thereof." Anon "Everyone should sweep before their own door." (*) Anon
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"Every person goes does their death being in their hands only that which they have given away. () Anon
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* “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.”
Anon
* “Every stone raised for the Greater Good brings the mountain nearer to perfection.”
Anon
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* “Everything is Ok in the end. If it’s not OK, then it’s not the end.”
Anon
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* “Everything you take for granted today was once revolutionary.”
Anon
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* "Every time history repeats itself the price goes up." Anon
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* “Excellence can be attained if you:
??????????? - Care more than others think is wise
??????????? - Risk more than others think is safe
??????????? - Dream more than others think is practical
??????????? - Expect more than others think is possible.
Anon
* “Excellence is a journey not a destination”
Anon
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." Anon "Expose yourself to genius and it is possible some of it will rub off -- unfortunately this also applies to exposing yourself to rubbish ..." Anon (BL) ("Expose yourself to wisdom - You know it makes sense." bl)
* “Feeling good about yourself begins with serving others.”
Anon
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"Find something you truly believe in, and everything else will have meaning as well." Anon "FOOTSTEPS A man who had finished his life went before God. God reviewed his life and showed him the many lessons he had learned. When he had finished, God said: 'My child is there anything you wish to ask?' And the man said: 'While you were showing me your life, I noticed that when the times were pleasant, there were two sets of footprints, and you walked beside me. But when times were difficult there was only one sets of footprints. Why Father did you desert me during the difficult times?' And God said: "You misinterpret, my son. It is true that when the times were pleasant I walked beside you and pointed out the way. But when the times were difficult I carried you.'" Anon * "For evil to triumph all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing." Anon
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* "Forget the past, live in the present and embrace the future." Anon
* “For happiness we need to feel OK about our past, and confident in our future, together with finding meaning and love in our day-to-day lives.”
Anon
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* "Friction doesn't make the world go round, it just shows that it is." Anon
* "Give a child an education and you give them an inheritance for life." Anon
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* "Good depends not on things but on the use we make of things."
Anon
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* "Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget."
Anon
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* "Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement."
Anon
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* "Good leaders use their actions (/emotions) to liberate the energy of others.”
Anon
* “Good times build confidence. Bad times build character.”
Anon
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* "Good things happen because people make them happen, and bad things happen because people let them happen." Anon
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* “Great minds don’t think alike … but they do like to think.”
Anon
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* “Great minds don’t think alike. They just work together.”
Anon * “Happiness comes not from having much to live on but from having much to live for.”
Anon*
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* “Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective.”
Anon
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* “Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So ….
??????????? Work like you don’t need the money,
??????????? Love like you’ve never been hurt,
??????????? And dance like no one is watching.”
Anon
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"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."() Anon * “Happiness is not a goal but what you feel on the way to achieving your goal.”
Anon
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"Happiness is the ability to enjoy being a prisoner of your commitments/responsibilities." Anon (BL) "Happiness is the engine of progress. All progress starts with dissatisfaction." Anon "Happiness rests on being satisfied both with what we have and what we don't have." Anon "Happiness Today - Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologise if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more." Anon
* “Help someone who can’t return the favour.”
Anon
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"History is made by people determined to make history." Anon “Hope is the only true motive for action.”
Anon
(‘Because hope is the desire to make things better ….’ bl)
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* “Hospitality meets its greatest test when a new idea drops by uninvited.”
Anon
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"How much you know is less important than how fast you are learning." Anon "I always learn more by listening than talking, but it isn't as much fun." Anon
(But the learning comes from the questions people ask. bl)
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"I can feel that your heart comes from the soul of the universe." Anon "I cannot change yesterday I can only make the most of today, and look with hope towards tomorrow." Anon * "Idle hands are the devils tools." Anon
* "I don’t forgive people because I’m weak. I forgive them because I’m strong enough to know that people make mistakes." Anon
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* “If everyone looked on their neighbour as a friend then there would be no need for war, and peace would ensure.”
Anon
* "If God was looking for a hiding place he'd hide in Human Beings because that is the last place they would think of looking for Him." Anon
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* “If I had know I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.”
Anon * “If it’s going to be, it’s down to me.”
Anon
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"If people go on exploiting the world as if there was no tomorrow, there will be no tomorrow." Anon (Or: "If you are not concerned about the future you don't take care of the present." Anon) “If the Human Race does not learn more effectively from its history, it is very unlikely to have a rewarding future – if it has any future at all.”
Anon (BL).
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* “If the young man knew how and the old man was able, there would be nothing which wouldn’t be done.”
Anon
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* “If we carry parts of the past into the future, they should be what is the best about the past.”
Anon
(And what we have learnt from it. BL)
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* “If we want to make the world a better place we just have to start by being more loving, giving, respectful and considerate towards other people. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Anon
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* "If you are a giving person, it is likely you will be well loved. If you are a loving person, if is likely you will also be loved." Anon (bl)
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* "If you are giving back, then you took too much." Anon
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* "If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times you will have to get use to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are in the wrong." Anon (bl)
"If you are in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out. Remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt." Anon "If you are not riding the wave of change -- you'll find yourself beneath it." Anon
* “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
Anon
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* “If you can’t be positive, at least be quiet.”
Anon . (T shirt slogan)
* “If you can’t unhappen it, don’t worry about it.”
Anon
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* “If you choose to be courageous then you have to let go of the need for comfort, because you can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot have both.”
Anon
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* "If you don't build in the present, there won't be anything worth visiting in the future." Anon
* “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
Anon * "If you feel that you are indispensable, put your finger in a glass of water, withdraw it, and note the hole you have left behind." Anon
"If you keep your face to the sun, you cannot see the shadow." Anon "If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword." Anon * “If you live your life afraid because you’re afraid to live, then you live no life at all.”
Anon
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"If you lose your temper don't look for it." Anon “If you need something from somebody, always try to help give that person a way to give it to you.”
Anon
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* "If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." Anon
* "If you scratch the surface of a cynic you’ll find a disillusioned idealist underneath." Anon
"If you think you're beaten, you are If you think you daren't, you don't If you'd like to win but think you can't It's almost certain you won't If you think you'll lose, you're lost For out in the world we find Success begins with an Individual's will It is a state of mind Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster person But sooner or later the person who wins Is the person who thinks they can." Anon "If your life has purpose, that is the road to happiness." Anon
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"If you wake up in the morning With your hardest job to do. Don't start the day with grumbling -- That won't help you see it through. Be glad for work that's difficult, For tasks that challenge you! Workers find a thousand blessings The idle never knew." Anon "If you want a piece of the pie you must always try to sit close to the person with the knife." Anon
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* "If you want to become a learner you had better get used to being embarrassed by what you don’t know." Anon
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* "If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. Believe in what you are doing." Anon
(I am not sure that the second sentence ‘Love ..’? is really needed, as it is very unlikely that you will ‘Believe’ unless you also ‘Love’?
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* "If you work for any sizeable organisation, you quickly become a prisoner in that pyramid.."
Anon (BL)
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"If you would change the world, then live your own highest and best wisdom." Anon (Submitted by Kenneth Broom, wfs) (also see Gandhi...+ others) "If you would keep young and happy, be good; live a high moral life; practice the principles of the brotherhood of man; send out good thoughts to all, and think evil of no-one. This is in obedience to the great natural law; to live otherwise is to break this great Divine law. Other things being equal, it is the cleanest, purest minds that live long and are happy. The person who is growing and developing intellectually does not grow old like the person who has stopped advancing, but when ambition, aspirations and ideals halt, old age begins.(*) Anon "Imagination is more important than knowledge; it is the preview of life's coming attractions." Anon "In a peaceful, innovative society the future can be our friend as we learn to exploit and enjoy the resources of the planet and our minds in order to improve ourselves. The alternative choice is a warlike or disorganized society in which the future holds only greater destruction, misery and death." Anon
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* “Inherent in the wise individual is the will to responsibly self govern.” Anon, (BL)
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* "In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning." Anon (see Lao-Tze, The Caterpillar and the Butterfly)
"Innovation is anything but business as usual." Anon “Invest in the future, have a child and teach them well.”
Anon
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"In the end, each of us will be judged by our standard of life, not be our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness." Anon "In times of change, there is no incentive so great and no medicine so powerful as hope for a better tomorrow." Anon "Ironically science is not able to give the human race the one thing that it is searching for more than anything else --- meaning." Anon "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, any goodness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Anon * “It is a great blunder in the pursuit of happiness not to know when we have got it.”
Anon
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"It is a law of human life, as certain as gravity: to live fully, we must learn to use things and love people ... not love things and use people." Anon "It is a paradox that we appear to spend more and more time focused on learning that has a short shelf-life and less and less time on passing on wisdom that has a long shelf-life." Anon (BL)
* “It is better to have things to live for than things to live with.”
Anon
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* “It is better to speak from a full heart and an empty head than from a full head and an empty heart.”
Anon
(But it is even better to have both.Bl)
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"It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere." Anon "It is not the great teacher who can cause the pupil to learn; the great teacher causes the pupil to want to learn." Anon
* “It isn’t doing the job that takes the time; it’s the starting and the finishing of it.”
Anon
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* “It isn’t the size of one’s will which determines success.”
Anon
* “It’s all in the State of mind
???? If you think you are beaten,
??????????? you are,
??? If you think you dare not,
??????????? you don’t,
??? If you like to win but you think
??????????? you can’t
??? It’s almost sure you won’t
??? If you think you’ll lose,
??????????? you’ve lost.
?? For out in the world you find
?? Success begins with a fellow’s will
?? It’s all in the state of mind.”
Anon
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* “It’s a wise person who holds their tongue when they’re right.”
Anon
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* "It's fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." Anon
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* "It's good to talk but it is even better to listen...." Anon (BL)
* "It's not what you'd do with a million. If riches should e'er be your lot, But what are your doing at present With the dollar and a half you've got?" Anon
* "It’s the thought that counts, but the action that matters.’
Anon
* "It takes courage.
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It takes strength to be firm,
It takes courage to be gentle.
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It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.
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It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubt.
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It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.
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It takes strength to feel a friend’s pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.
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It takes strength to endure abuse,
It takes courage to stop it.
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It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on another.
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It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.
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It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live." Anon
* "It usually takes 20 years to become an overnight success." Anon
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* "I’ve learnt so much from my mistakes that I’m thinking about making a few more." Anon
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* "I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past." Anon
* “I Wish You Enough
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??????????? I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
??????????? I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
??????????? I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
??????????? I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
??????????? I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
??????????? I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess
??????????? I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”
???????????
Anon
"Jealously is much more about insecurity than love" Anon “Judge each day, not by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant.”
Anon
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* “Just because we use different words doesn’t mean that we are not saying the same thing.”
Anon (BL)
* “Knowledge only becomes wisdom after it has been put to good practical use.” Anon
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* “Knowledge is the one possession no one can rob you of.”
Anon
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* “Lawyers make their fortune by playing games with the letter of the aw, while society works best by just adhering to it’s spirit.”
Anon (BL)
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* “Leadership is not a position but a responsibility to act, that it’s not a noun but a verb.”
Anon
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"Learn as if you were to live for ever; live as if you were to die to-morrow." Anon (Or: "Live this day as if your last.") "Learn from the past; Live in the present and be concerned about the Future. What more can we ask?" Anon
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"Learn to love and love to learn" Anon "Life becomes tragic to them who have plenty to live on but little to live for."(*) Anon
* "Life is about moments. Don’t wait for them create them." Anon
* “Life isa one time offer, use it well.”
Anon
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* "Life is like a grindstone: Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of." Anon
* “Life (Love) is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.”
Anon
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* “Life is more liveable with laughter.”
Anon
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* “Life is not the wick or the candle – it is the burning.”
Anon
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* “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Anon
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* “Life is what you make of it, not what it throws at you.”
Anon
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* “Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.”
Anon
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* “Life’s failures are stepping stones to success.”
Anon
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* “Life’s short. If you don’t look around once in a while you might miss it.”
Anon
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* "Listening to others talking about their lives and deepest concerns we learn more about ourselves because we are all part of one another." Anon
* “Live this day like it’s your last – one day you’ll get it right.”
Anon
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* "Love is the sunshine of the soul. Without it we get hard and sour and we never grow into what we could be. Love sweetens the bitterness of experience and softens the core of selfishness that is inherent in human nature." Anon
* "Love puts meaning into life"
Anon (BL)
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* "Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear"
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Anon
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* “Love without pretending
Love without depending
Love without defending
Speak without offending.”
Anon
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* “Luck helps most when you don’t rely upon it too much.”
Anon
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* “Luck is a lifetime of preparation for a moment of opportunity.”
Anon
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"Many people are praying for mountains to be moved when all they need to do is climb them." Anon "Many people watch, but few see." Anon
* "Love puts meaning into life"
Anon (BL)
* "Marriage makes people treat each other as articles of property and no longer as free human beings." Anon
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* "Measure success by what we do – not by what we own.
What we give away not what we possess ...”
Anon
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* "Mind over matter – as long as the mind is not trying to overcome the laws of nature." Anon
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* "Money is a measure of success only for these people who suffer from a conspicuous absence of any real meaning to their lives." Anon
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* "Money should be like manure – if you spread it generously, things will grow out of it." Anon
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* "More important than giving to the poor is to stop taking from them." Anon
* “More people die of laziness than of hard work.”
Anon
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"Most anti-social behaviour comes from people reflecting a lack of respect for the future." Anon (bl) "Most of us know how to say nothing; few of us know when."
Anon
* "My Daily Creed
Let me be a little kinder,
Let me be a little blinder
To the faults of those about me;
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Let me praise a little more;
Let me be, when I am weary,
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Just a little bit more cheery;
Let me serve a little better
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Those that I am striving for.
Let me strive a little harder
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To be all that i should be;
Let me be a little meeker
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With the brother that is weaker;
Let me think more of my neighbour
And a little less of me."
Anon
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"Never ascribe to malice what can perfectly well be explained by stupidity." Anon ( "Given the choice the cock up theory of history is much more likely than the conspiracy theory -- particularly as the latter is always incredibly management intensive." BL) "Never gloat over good fortune; for, if you do, it will quickly turn sour." Anon
* “Never regret your past; rather embrace it as the teacher that it is.”
Anon
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* "Never test the depth of the water with both feet."
Anon
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"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let us first blossom, then bear fruit and then ripen." Anon "No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would ...." Anon * “No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.”
Anon
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"No one ever finds life worth living ... they have to make it worth living."() Anon * "Not every word requires an answer." Anon
"Nothing is interesting if we're not interested." Anon "Nothing is more conducive to progress than the widespread belief that it can occur." Anon (also see: "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." Johnson, Samuel)
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* “Now is the seed of eternity”
Anon
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* “Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.”
Anon
(I am not so sure after observing squirrels …bl)
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* “Once we had wisdom then we had knowledge, now it is mostly just information.”
Anon
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* “One can learn theories better from a book, but to grasp their essence one must put them into practice.”
Anon
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* "One person cannot change the world but everyone can change the world for one person.” Anon
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"One person's chaos is another person's freedom." Anon (BL) "One's nearer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth." Anon * "Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in." Anon
* “Our greatest honour is not that we never fall down but that we pick ourselves up again each time we fall.”
Anon
"Our joys as winged dreams do fly; Why then should sorrow last? Since grief but aggravates the loss, Grieve not for what is past." Anon "Our lives will always be full if our hearts are always giving." Anon "Our values are revealed by what we do, not by what we say." Anon "Paradox: Why does the Human Race spend so many resources attempting to understand 'the laws of nature', when we all know that, in the end, we would die from the boredom of predictability, if we ever found out all the answers." Anon (bl) * “Parenting is an awesome responsibility”
Anon
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"Parents generally strive to create a better future for their children." Anon (Note: "Is it true that those without children have a different view of the future than those with children?" BL) “People always find it easier to be a result of the past, rather than a cause of the future.”
Anon
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* “People believe in what they are doing or they resent it.”
Anon
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"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." Anon "People expect to be listened too, even when you don’t think they have anything interesting to say." Anon
* "People have little idea of what they are capable of until they try." Anon
* “People have responsibility not power”
Anon
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*? “People learn nothing when they are asleep, and very little when they are bored.”
Anon
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“People of genius are admired, people of wealth are envied; people of power are feared; but only people of character are trusted.” ()
Anon
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* “People often, and in general, have highly optimistic attitude/image about their personal & family future whereas they are evidently very pessimistic about the world future. As if their personal future will occur on a different planet!”
Anon
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* “People who listen a lot are not only more likely to be successful as they are more likely to learn and less likely to show their ignorance, but they are less likely to say something stupid.”
Anon
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* “People who matter don’t judge and people who judge don’t matter.”
Anon
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"People who say something can't be done are usually interrupted by those doing it!" Anon "Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." Anon
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* “Personal training …. ‘They spend all their life getting fit only to end up being fit for nothing’!!
Anon
"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children." Anon "Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection." Anon "Problems are nothing but wake-up calls for creativity." Anon “Reciprocity is a human universal. It’s rare for you to do something nice for someone and for them then not to repeat it for you.”
Anon
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* “Recycling wisdom is a start, but being wise by putting wisdom into practice is what really matters.”
Anon (bl)
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* “Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.”
Anon
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* “Remember the three Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.”
Anon
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"Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow; but live for today." Anon “Reputation is what you are in the light; Character is what you are in the dark.”
Anon
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* “Respect your children from a young age and treat them as rational beings. Because if you don’t respect them, why would they want to respect you?”
Anon
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* “Responsibility always exceeds authority”
Anon
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* “Responsibility develops some people and ruins others.”
Anon
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"Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean." () Anon
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* "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Anon * "Science tells us how things work but it doesn't give them meaning." Anon ("Science might be able to tell us most of the answers, but it rarely tells us what are the important questions to ask." BL)
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* "Self-discipline comes from being passionately committed to an activity that gives your life meaning.”
Anon (BL) * "Self-respect is not a matter of what you are doing in your life, but rather of how you are doing it. It requires that you bring quality and virtue into each action, whatever that action may be." Anon
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* "SMILE SMILE ... and turn your sound on. Smiling is infextious, you catch it like the flu, When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too. I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin When he smiled I realised I'd passed it on to him. I thought about that smile then I realised its worth A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth. So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected Let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!" Anon (via the internet and Dharati Trivedi)
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"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down." Anon "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together." Anon * “Some people get the breaks, other people make them.”
Anon
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* “Some people make the world special just by being in it.”
Anon
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* “Some people may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.”
Anon
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* “Sometimes we take things for granted and we forget to stop, look, and listen. It’s an awesome world we live in.”
Anon
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"Speaking is good for the ego. Listening is good for the soul." Anon (BL) "Speak softly and sweetly. If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them." Anon * “Squeeze the past like a sponge, smell the present like a rose and send a kiss to the future.”
Anon
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* “Start a kind word on its travels; it may go far and do a lot of good.”
Anon
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* “Statesmen?worry about the next generation. Politicians worry about the next election.”
Anon
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* "Strange paradoxical state of affairs where we have more and more choice but we are left with the feeling that we have less and less control over our lives." Anon (BL)
* "Strange, the more you have the more possessive you become.” Not exactly a giving culture ....
Anon (BL)
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* "Success is a journey, not a destination." Anon ?
* "Success is going from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm." Anon
“Success is more attitude than aptitude”
Anon
* "Success is never final and failure is never fatal; its courage that counts." Anon
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"Success in life should be defined and measured by how much we do for others, not by what possessions we have or how much money we have made." Anon. (BL) * "Take time to be happy. Time is not a fast lane between cradle and grave. It is a place to park out of the sun." Anon
* “Talk is cheap – people is judged by deeds.”
Anon
"Teachers are the hands that rock the future." Anon "Teachers nurture the seeds of today so they might blossom into the flowers of tomorrow." Anon "Teachers plant the seeds of the future into the minds of the next generation." Anon "Teaching is a work of the heart." Anon
* "Teaching is the profession that creates all others." Anon
* “Teach your kids responsibility early”
Anon
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* "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common visions. The ability to direct individual accomplishment towards organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Anon
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting in discovery." Anon "The best things in life are free." Anon "The best way to help solve your problems is to help other people solve theirs." Anon (BL) "The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are. But on how happy others can be because of you." Anon (BL)
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"THE CLOCK OF LIFE The clock of life is wound but once And no man has the power To tell just when the hands will stop At late or early hour. Now is the only time you own Live, love, toil with a will Place no faith in tomorrow, for The clock may then be still." Anon "The concept of retirement is only meaningful to those people who regard work as a prison, rather than a life enhancing experience." Anon (bl) * "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." Anon
* “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.”
Anon
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* “The dissatisfaction that every artist feels at the completion of a work is the beginning of a better work.”
Anon
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* “The dominant desire of the institution concerned is to avoid blame, rather than exercise responsibility.”
Anon
"The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious." Anon "The easiest thing is to fall in love with is a smile." Anon
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Anon “The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.”
Anon
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"The future was formerly entirely a matter of chance, now it is slowly becoming a matter of choice." Anon (..... "so it is becoming much more our responsibility?" BL) "The greatest contribution which any of us can make to the world is just to be ourselves at our best." Anon "The greatest thing to leave children is the love they have in them not the inheritance you might leave them." Anon "The happiness of your life is in direct proportion to the character of your thoughts." Anon "The harder you work ... the luckier you get." Anon (see Arnold Palmer?) "The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth, In making bright and fruitful all the barren spots of earth. In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat, And making true what once was false, and what was bitter, sweet. For only those who know perfect joy whose little bit of soil Is richer ground than what it was when they began to toil." Anon * "The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose." Anon
* “The measure of a civilized society is how people are treated in its dark places.”
Anon
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*“The more change that is taking place the more effective our learning needs to be, if we want to equate that change with progress.”
Anon (BL).
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* “The more choices you have the harder it is to make commitments.”
Anon (BL)
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* “The person who complains they are not getting enough is usually not giving enough.”
Anon
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* “The person who knows most is the first to want to know more.”
Anon
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* "The meaning of life comes mainly from the feeling that you are alive, when you are not asking the question."
Anon (BL)
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* “The mind will only do what the heart tell’s it to.”
Anon
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* " The more alive you are the more the thought of being dead is viewed as a meaningless experience." Anon (BL)
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* "The more knowledge we have the more wisdom we need to ensure that it is used well."
Anon "The most important things in life aren't things." Anon (see Einstein?) “The only purpose of life is to try to make the world a better place for future generations.”
Anon (BL)
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* "The only way to cope without the need for a thick skin is to be sure that you believe in the rightness of what you are trying to do.." Anon
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"The past should be a springboard not a hammock." Anon “The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.”
Anon
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* “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Anon
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* “The quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.”
Anon
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* “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons.”
Anon
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"There are ten good things for which no person has ever been sorry: For doing good to all; For speaking evil of no one; For hearing before judging; For thinking before speaking; For holding an angry tongue; For being kind to the distressed; For asking pardon for all wrongs; For being patient toward everybody; For stopping the ear to the tale bearer; For disbelieving most of the evil reports." Anon "There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened." Anon "There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them." Anon "There are two things to do with your life: Experience the beauty of the world; and change its ugliness. The problem that most of us have is balancing priorities and then moving from one state of mind to the other. Unfortunately the net result is that too many of us spend too much time in neutral confusion doing neither, or caught up with arguments over trying to agree on what is 'beautiful' and what is 'ugly'." Anon (bl) "There is a past which is gone for ever; but there is a future which is still our own work." Anon "There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." Anon * “There is one sure way of being happy and that is to believe that you are doing God’s will.”
Anon (BL)
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* "There is never a wrong time to do the right thing." Anon
* “There’s a thin line between losing & winning. Losing breeds winners. The main recipe to success is through failures & hardships!”
Anon
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* “There’s no better feeling than to know you have helped someone succeed.”
Anon
* "There is no limit to what people can do, or where they can go, if they don't mind who gets the credit." Anon
* “There is no point in living if you don’t feel alive.”
Anon
"There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it." Anon "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come." Anon "There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us." Anon "There's hope as long as you can smile." Anon
* “There’s no such thing as a stranger; only a friend you haven’t yet met yet.”
Anon
* "The rich who help the poor make their lives richer." Anon
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"The road to success is always under-construction." Anon "The search for knowledge when combined with the maturity of reflection on experience is probably the most effective path to wisdom." Anon (BL) * "The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything really badly that reason says you have little or no chance of getting." Anon
* “The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.”
Anon
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* "The secret of a successful life is to be able to give meaning to its routines." Anon
* “The secret of living a long and happy life is to become gentler and kinder (ie wiser) as you grow older.”
Anon
* "The secret of long term success is to become wise before you get too old for it to be of any use." Anon
* "The sooner children go off the rails, the sooner they learn it is not a very pleasant place to be." Anon (BL)
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“The specialist learns more and more about less and less, until they knows everything about nothing. The generalist learns less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything.”()
Anon
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* “The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.” Anon
* “The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.” Anon
* The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”
Anon
"The thing that goes the furthest toward making life worth while, That cost the least and does the most is just a pleasing smile; The smile that bubbles from the heart, that loves it's fellow men, will drive away the clouds and gloom and bring the sun again. there is no room for sadness ... When we see a cheery smile. It always has the same good luck It's never out of style, It's spurs us on to try again When failure makes us blue, The dimples and encouragement and good.. for me and you." Anon “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching you goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” Anon
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* “The wind of adversity doesn’t suffocate the house of wisdom”
Anon
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* “The wise society does not need written laws to regulate the governance and relations between the stakeholders; instead it uses the unwritten laws of humanity.”
(Anon, BL)
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* “The wisest person is who does not believe that they are wise.” Anon
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"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong too the first group. There is much less competition." Anon "Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out." Anon "Those people who think life is a problem haven't got enough to worry about." Anon (BL) “Those who expect the worst are never disappointed.”
Anon
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“Those who know not and know not they know not: there are a fool – shun them. Those who know not and know they know not: they are simple – teach them. Those who know and know not they know: they are asleep – wake them. Those who know and know they know: they are wise – follow them.”()
Anon
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* “Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.”
Anon
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"Thoughts and dreams of a better future provide hope for our continued existence." Anon “To be a Great Leader, you have to be a Great Human Being.”
Anon
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* “To be open about history is the foundation of a better present and a better future.”
Anon
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* “To gain respect – firstly give it.”
Anon
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"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die." Anon "To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk disappointment. But risks must be taken because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, sees nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and live. Anon * “To those who have much, much is expected.”
Anon
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“To whom God wants to destroy, it gives 20 years of success.”()
Anon
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* ?“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.”
Anon.
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"Travel broadens the mind but it can sure unsettle the soul." Anon “Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.”
Anon
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* “True intelligence is the mind honouring the wisdom of the heart.”
Anon
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"True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come." Anon "Twenty Keys to a Happy Life.
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1??????????????????? Compliment 3 people everyday!
2??????????????????? Watch a sunrise
3??????????????????? Be the first to say ‘hello’
4??????????????????? Treat everyone as you want to be treated
5??????????????????? Live beneath your means
6??????????????????? Forget the Jones
7??????????????????? Never give up on anybody – miracles happen!
8??????????????????? Remember someone’s name
9??????????????????? Be kinder than you have to be
10??????????????? Wish not for things, but for wisdom and courage
11??????????????? Be tough-minded, but tender hearted
12??????????????? Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated
13??????????????? Keep your promises
14??????????????? Leave everything better than you found it
15??????????????? Show cheerfulness even when you don’t fell it
16??????????????? Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do
17??????????????? Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years
18??????????????? When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
19??????????????? Don’t rain on other people’s parades
20??????????????? Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them!" Anon
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* "Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position but certainty is an absurd one.” Anon?
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* "Unfortunately too often you find that those people who have the strongest opinions, are the one’s that are the less informed." Anon? (BL)
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"Unless the effectiveness of our learning is greater than the nature of change it is unlikely that the change will be equated with progress." Anon "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow." Anon "Visionary sights unseen see future shapes never made from thoughts unthought which imagine the unimaginable in new colour vision of everything out there but not as we know it." Anon "Warriors may be formed in the heat of battle, but heroes are found in the unlikely places." Anon * "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, what we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Anon
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* “We all leave footprints in the sand. The question is, will we be a big heel, or a great soul.”
Anon
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* "Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare .... wealth without wisdom often ends in disaster." Anon
* “We all live under the same sky but we don’t share the same horizon.”
Anon
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* “We all want to be famous people and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”
Anon
"We are moving rapidly into the Knowledge Economy but we appear to have lost our respect for Wisdom, let alone how we might pass it on effectively." Anon (BL) "We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused." Anon
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* "We are prisoners of our commitments, responsibilities and expectations” ." Anon (BL)
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* "We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it." Anon
* "We cannot change history but we can learn from it – and if we don’t we will be condemned to repeat the same mistakes.”
Anon
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* "We cannot change the past but we can change the future." Anon
"We first make our habits, then our habits make us." Anon “We learn from our parents but not by being told what to do.”
Anon
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?* “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.”
Anon * “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
Anon
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* "What is said is more important than who said it." Anon
(see Acquinas) * "What counts is not what we take, but what we leave behind?" Anon (or Dr Ichak Kalderon Adizes?)
"What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?" Anon “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Anon
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* “When I share my strength it will help others become stronger.”
Anon
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* “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
Anon
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* “When it hurts to look back it usually means you’re scared to look ahead.”
Anon
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"When we sympathize with someone, we know; when we empathize, we understand." Anon "When you die you can rest in peace if you are able to convince yourself that you did your bit for the future." Anon "When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow we gave our today." Anon (Remembrance saying) "Wisdom consists of preparing for, or foreseeing, short-term future events through the use of relevant past experiences." Anon
* “Wisdom is a blessing only to those prepared to absorb it.”
Anon
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* “Wisdom is a life that knows it is worth living.”
Anon
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* “Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.”
Anon
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* “Wisdom is obtained out of the Flame of Life of human experience.”
Anon
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* “Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.”
Anon
* “Wisdom: Understanding what is true, right, and lasting.”
Anon
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* "Wise people don’t let their prejudges get in the way of their judgement." Anon
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"Wise people learn by the mistakes of others, fools by their own."() Anon
"Wise people refuse to commit their time and energy to the unhelpful.()
Anon
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* “Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid then ignorance.”
Anon
"Work is love made visible. Keep working with love." Anon "Worry enough to anticipate trouble, but not so much as to bring it about." Anon
* "Worry is a terrible waste of imagination." Anon
* "Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere." Anon
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"Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand; spend it wisely." Anon "Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow, a vision of hope. Look to this day for it is life." Anon * “Yesterday is History
??????????? Tomorrow a Mystery and
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??????????? That’s why it’s called the Present”
Anon (in? Zest for Life, by Dawn Breslin, p183.)
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* “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world, today I am wise so I am changing myself”.
Anon
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* “You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.”
Anon
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* “You can either be a victim in life or you can get on with it with a genuine smile.”
Anon
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* “You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”
Anon
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* “You can’t change your past, but you can use it to try and shape your future.”
Anon
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* “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Anon
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* “You cannot motivate the best people with money.”
Anon
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"You can't drive into the future if you're always looking into your rear view mirror." Anon "You can't predict the future but you can prepare for it." Anon "You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf." Anon “You can tell whether a person is clever by their answers. You can tell whether they are wise by their questions?”
Anon
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* “You’ll know when something becomes meaningful to you when it goes from your head to your heart to your hands.”
Anon
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* “You may not be responsible for the past but you are responsible for the future.”
Anon
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* “You must realise that love is not a selfish act of possessiveness.”
Anon
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* “You only learn and you only change things if you start by questioning them.”
Anon
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* “Your action for today is to think of something you would do differently in hindsight and what lesson did that experience teach you.”
Anon
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* “Your actions speak so loud I cannot hear your words.”
Anon
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* “ Your age may be irrelevant but the feeling of getting old can still be a challenge”
Anon
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* “ Your I can is more important than your I.Q”
Anon
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* “Your responsibility exceeds your accountability.”
Anon
* “Youth is a gift of nature, age is a work of art.”
Anon
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* “Youth – the infinite wisdom of inexperience.”
Anon
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"You want more freedom, you'll have to earn it through the ability to handle more responsibility." Anon “You will never be sorry –
??????????? for thinking before acting,
??????????? for hearing before judging,
??????????? for forgiving your enemies,
??????????? for being candid and frank,
??????????? for helping a fallen brother,
??????????? for being honest in business,
??????????? for thinking before speaking,
for being loyal to your church,
??????????? for standing by your principles,
??????????? for stopping your ears to gossip,
for bridling a slanderous tongue,
for harboring only pure thoughts,
??????????? for sympathizing with the afflicted,
??????????? for being courteous and kind to all.”
Anon
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* “You will never have this day again – so make it count.”
Anon
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* "You will only find happiness if you are able to learn to live with the fact that some, if not most, of it is not always under your control." Anon (BL)
"You've got to think it and believe it in order to achieve it." Anon "Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law." Anouilh, Jean (Or: "Those with power must set an example in its use, or it will be taken from them." BL) "One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose." Anouilh, Jean "The object of art is to give life a shape." Anouilh, Jean "Things are beautiful if you love them." Anouilh, Jean ( "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" Anon) "I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order that I may understand." Anslem, (Proslogium) “Some people drink for the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”
Anthony, Robert
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* “Wisdom outweighs any wealth”
Antigone l.1050.
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* “The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.”
Antiphanes
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* "The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education."
Antisthenes
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"The future is only a question of putting the past in order, you don't have to foresee it, only allow it to happen." Antoine de Saint-Exupery "A person's greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of them self and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and on obedience to the rule which they know to be right, without troubling themselves about what others may think or say, or whether they do, or do not, that which they think and say and do."(*) Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "A wrong-doer is often a person that has left something undone, not always that they have done something." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light, or your ability to look the world in the face." (*) Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "It is not death that a person should fear, but that they should fear never beginning to live." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "Let goodness go with the doing." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius "Love work. Turn a deaf ear to slander. Be considerate in correcting others. Do not be taken up by trifles. Do not resent plain speaking. Meet offenders half-way. Be thorough in thought. Have an open mind. Do your duty without grumbling." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
* “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (Or: "Our life is what our thoughts make it." Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius) "I don't like nostalgia. I don't like to look back, only forward." Antonioni, Michelangelo * "Experience is a good teacher but she runs up big bills." Antrim, Minna
* “If you have much give of your wealth, if you have little give of your heart.”
Arab proverb
* “Those who predict the future lies, even if they tell the truth.”
Arab Proverb
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"Throw your heart out in front of you. And run ahead to catch it." Arab Proverb "Those who predict the future lie, even if they tell the truth." Arab Proverb. (Extract from Baldock. R. Destination Z: The History of the Future, John Wiley (1999), pxxvi. "Which is wise and true, for we cannot say what the future hold, it will indeed always be uncertain.") “The person of wisdom will never allow themselves to be caught up in any one form or belief, because they are wise unto themselves.”
Arabi
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* “A book is a garden carried in a pocket.”
Arabian Proverb
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* "All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable; those that are movable, and those that move." Arabian Proverb
*” Diligence is the greatest of teachers.”
Arabian Proverb
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* “Examine what is said not him who speaks.”
Arabian Proverb
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* “Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom.”
Arabian Proverb
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"People can have but what they strive for."() Arabian Proverb
* "God judges a tree by its fruits and not by it's roots."
Arabian Proverb
"Those who have health has hope, and those who have hope have everything."() Arabian Proverb "Work for your future as if you are going to live forever, for your afterlife is as if you are going to die tomorrow." Arabian Proverb “All things but knowledge diminish when used.”
Arabic Wisdom
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* “He who knows not and knows not he knows not. He is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not. He is simple – Teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows. He is asleep – Awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows. He is wise – Follow him”
Arabic Wisdom
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* “If you want to see how big a person is, see what makes them angry”
Arabic Wisdom
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* “My favourite thing is to go where I have never been.”
Arbus, Diane (1923-1971) Photographer.
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"If I had a lever I could move the world." Archimedes (The origin of the Butterfly Effect and Chaos Theory? BL) "The will to power ... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before." Arendt, Hannah "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." Aretino, Pietro "A wise person’s country (is) the world." Aristippus (as quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of Eminent Philosophers)
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* "One may learn wisdom even from one's enemies." Aristophanes, Birds 382 (450-385 BC) ( ‘The wise learn many things from their enemies.’ Anon)
"Wise are those who can compress many thoughts into few words."() Aristophanes,
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"Wise people, though all laws were abolished would lead the same life."() Aristophanes, "All men by nature desire to know." Aristotle (384-322 BC) "Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not easy." Aristotle By the just we mean that which is lawful and that which is fair and equitable." Aristotle “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
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* “Education is the best provision for old age.”
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* “Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
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* “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
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* “Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.”
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* “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
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(Happiness depends on a combination of:? a) having control over one’s life? and b) feeling one’s life has meaning ....BL ... Where does meaning come from? Religion; Living in the moment; helping others. BL)
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"Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself."() Aristotle "Happiness must be some form of contemplation. But, being a person, one will also need external prosperity; for our nature is not self-sufficient for the purpose of contemplation, but our body also must be healthy and must have food and other attention. Still, we must not think that the person who is to be happy will need many things or great things, for self sufficiency and action do not involve excess, and we can do noble acts without ruling earth and sea."() Aristotle
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* “He who the gods want to destroy, they will give 40 years of prosperity.”
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“If the leader is not wise and just, how can they rule properly.”()
Aristotle * “In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
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"In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action." Aristotle "It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws." Aristotle "It is pleasant to be loved, for this makes a person see themselves as the possessor of goodness, a thing that every being that has a feeling for it desires to possess: to be loved means to be valued for one's own personal qualities."() Aristotle * “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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* “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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* “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
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"People’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice."() Aristotle
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"Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessness." (or “Nature does nothing uselessly.”) Aristotle "The beginning is more than half the whole task." Aristotle
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"The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity." Aristotle "The greatest thing, by far, is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned; and it is also a sign of genius." Aristotle "The salvation of the community is the common business of them all." Aristotle "The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur." Aristotle
“The wise person does not expose themselves needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which they care sufficiently; but they are willing, in a great crises to give even their life – knowling that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live.” () Aristotle
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"They who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for those only gave them life, the others show them the art of living well." Aristotle "To love is better than to be loved. For love is an active pleasure and a good thing whilst merely to be loved creates no activity in the soul." Aristotle “To write well, express yourself like the common people but think like a wise person.” ()
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"Wealth obviously is not the good we seek, for the sole purpose it serves is to provide the means for getting something else, pleasure, virtue and honour and they would have better title to be considered the good for they are to be desired for their account." Aristotle “We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.”
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"We should educate people so they make better use of their lives" Aristotle "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." Aristotle "Wise people do not expose themselves needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which they care sufficiently; but they are willing, in great crises, to give even their life - knowing that under certain circumstances it is not worth while to live." () Aristotle "The present is where we get lost -- if we forget our past and have no vision of the future." Armah, Ayi Kwei (The Healers 1978) 'We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about what is right." Arnall, Ellis "Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world." Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) "It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done." Arnold, Matthew "The difference between one person and another is not their ability - it's their energy." Arnold, Thomas "More choice and more leisure time seem to be what we are supposed to want, but I don't know if it makes us any happier." Arthur, Louise, (Shadow in Tiger Country, p228.) "What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, And smile, smile, smile." Asaf, George, (British songwriter,1880-1951) "If your civilization is to be enriched, it must be relived by every single child. It is in the schoolroom, or mostly in the schoolroom, while assimilating little titbits of what has been the experience of people before them that the child first makes the acquaintance of the human person, of the spiritual being that they are." Ascoli, Max * “Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
Ash, Mary Kay
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* “It is not our differences, we need to be concerned about, it is how we work together to resolve them that really matters.”
Ashberg, Judy ‘Lovers Wisdom’
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* “It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Asimov, Isaac
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* "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Asimov, Isaac
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* "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Asimov, Isaac
* “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
Ash, Mary Kay
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* “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
Ash, Mary Kay
* “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”
Ash, Mary Kay
* “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, your right.”
Ash, Mary Kay
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* “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it) but 'That's funny...”
Asimov, Isaac
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* “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Asimov, Isaac (Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988)
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"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view." Askinas, Wilma "Don't think of how you're going to spend your time -- use it." Askinas, Wilma "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing." Lady Astor "In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them." Atkinson, Brooks "It takes most people five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as valid to thinking as knowledge." Atkinson, Brooks, "Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be." Atkinson, Brooks,
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* “Things usually turn out better than you think.”
Atkinson, Von R. "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking." Atlee, Clement "No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something more than materialism." Atlee, Clement "The greatest challenge for democracy is to persuade people not to eat the seed corn of tomorrow's harvest." Atlee, Clement “I believe the heart of Knowledge Management is allowing great conversation between anyone anytime.”
Auckland, Marc
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"Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity." Auden W.H. "Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do." Auden W.H "I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation." Auden W.H "Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past not leave it behind." Auden, W.H "There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die." Auden W.H. "To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" Auden, W.H., (Epitaph for the Unknown soldier, 1955) "We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." Auden W.H. "We must love one another or die." Auden W.H.
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* "Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." St. Augustine (c399 AD)
* “Patience is the companion of wisdom”
St Augustine
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"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." St. Augustine "To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things." St. Augustine
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* “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
Augustine, Norman R.
* “It’s better to limp slowly along the right path than walk stridently in the wrong direction.”
Aurel, Marc
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"Begin each day by saying to yourself, 'Today I shall meet people who are interfering, ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious and selfish.' They are made this way because of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I, who have seen the nature of good and its beauty, and of evil and its ugliness, know that the inner nature of the person who does evil is the same nature as mine (not that we are brothers, but we possess the same mind and the same share of spirit); therefore I can't be harmed by any of these people, for no one can impose on me what is degrading. I shouldn't be angry with my brother or hate him. For we are made to work in harmony, like our two feet or hands, eyelids, or the rows of upper and lower teeth. To work against one another is against Nature; and it is acting against nature to be angry and to turn away."() Aurelius, Marcus (Roman emperor, author of Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180) * “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
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"It is not death that people should fear, but they should fear never beginning to live."() Aurelius, Marcus
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* “Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.”
Aurelius, Marcus "Never esteem anything of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." Aurelius, Marcus "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." Aurelius, Marcus
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* “People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast or in hills? .....? There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in their own mind ... so constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”
Aurelius, Marcus "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Aurelius, Marcus "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Aurelius, Marcus
* “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
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“The wise person sees in the misfortunate of others what they should avoid.”()
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* "Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." Aurelius, Marcus
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* "Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself." Aurelius, Marcus
* "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." Aurelius, Marcus
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"The power of love and caring can change the world." Autry, James "To be free is ... the interior certainty that every person is responsible for humanity, and not just before it." Averline, Claude "Whenever you fall, pick something up." Avery, Oswald Theodore "What we have learned Is like a handful of earth What we have yet to learn like the whole world." Avvaiyar "It is by insisting on an impossible standard of perfection that skeptics make themselves secure." () Ayer A.J. "No moral system can rest solely on authority." Ayer A.J. "Our sources of belief have become less trustworthy. We have stopped relying on the parents, elders, teachers who know us and whose views (whether right or wrong) are not designed to exploit us, and started relying on surrogate sources of belief, most notably TV which is designed to influence and manipulate." Ayres, Ed, (Editor of World Watch 1999.) * “In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imaging that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.”
Azai, Rabbi Ben