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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
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