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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity
to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
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
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