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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
We do not yet possess ourselves,
and we know at the same time
that we are much more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
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