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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Wisdom
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Compassion blooms where there is no expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have NO EXPECTATIONS.
Life will not meet your expectations.
Choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
We can no more do without spirituality
than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
- Ernest Holmes
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
It is no use walking anywhere to preach
unless our walking is our preaching.
- St. Francis of Assisi
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
There is no need for temples,
no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples;
my philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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