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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb) 
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Sense the life force -
what the Chinese call "Qi" -
radiating powerfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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