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We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Faith is the great affirmative power that
says "yes" to the infinite goodness of life -
regardless of appearances. We all have within us
the potential for mountain-moving faith,
but we must take the steps necessary to activate it.
- Mary Omwake
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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