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You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
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
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity
in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all
who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Honor My True Self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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