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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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