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Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
Related topics: Wisdom
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
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
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,
with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,
and that all of these are one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney Harris
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
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
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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