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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
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
The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
See God in every person, place, and thing,
and all will be well in your world.
- Louise L. Hay
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
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
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
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