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When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that a flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a spiritual Universe.
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
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
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God is in, through, around and for us.
- Ernest Holmes
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those who are bored with life,
the path to happiness almost always comes
through service to the less-fortunate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
I open myself for the word of Spirit to flow through me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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