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Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- 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
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:24
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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