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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Values Simplicity
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous 
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Never do anything that taints your mind.
Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations
that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality.
Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture
the good qualities you want to have.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
I do not hold fear about what is happening in the world.
I am responsible for how I conduct myself in the events of my days,
and endeavor to not dwell in fear about anything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do what nobody else can do for you.
Omit to do anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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