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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ...
by Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

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If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius PHOTO

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius PHOTO

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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)


 

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson

Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing

Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

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

The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up.
- Anonymous

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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