| You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the
complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
~Charles Mingus |
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| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison |
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| That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~Henry David Thoreau |
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| He who is contented is rich. ~Lao Tzu |
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| With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment
of riches consists in the parade of riches. ~Adam Smith
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| It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according
to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward
Beecher |
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| There is only one time when it is essential to awaken.
That time is now. ~Rumi |
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| Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance
itself... ~Rumi |
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| Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of
what you really love. ~Rumi |
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| Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. ~Deepak
Chopra |
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| The reality you experience is a mirror image of your expectations.
~Deepak Chopra |
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| Everything you need you already have. You are complete
right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice
person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must
be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your
own personal reality. ~Wayne Dyer |
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| None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life
but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary
poverty. ~Henry David Thoreau |
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| Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
~Pablo Picasso |
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| Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the
seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~Robert
Frost |
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| I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my
senses put in tune once more. ~John Burroughs |
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| Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old;
seek what they sought. ~Basho |
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| Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise.
~Alan Watts |
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| The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is
revealed. ~Terence McKenna |
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| When you get there, there isn't any there there.
~Gertrude Stein |
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| Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives
they must live. ~Charles Bukowski |
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| You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something.
Nowadays everybody's crazy. ~Charles Manson |
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| If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for
it or else you're going to be locked up. ~Hunter S. Thompson |
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| I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
~Marshall McLuhan |
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| People only see what they are prepared to see. ~Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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| A word to the wise is infuriating. ~Hunter S. Thompson
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| Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of
an uncompleted task. ~William James |
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| The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the
moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you
get into the office. ~Robert Frost |
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| A government big enough to give you everything you want
is strong enough to take everything you have. ~Thomas Jefferson |
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| Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase
a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
~Benjamin Franklin |
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| He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak
all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~Benjamin Franklin |
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| There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin
Franklin |
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| We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall
all hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin |
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| Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough
each morning to decide what is really important during the day
ahead. ~Richard Eyre |
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| The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
~Henry David Thoreau |
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| The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who
has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost |
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| Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.
~Henry David Thoreau |
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| What we need is to use what we have. ~Susan Sontag
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| There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living. ~Henry
David Thoreau |
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| Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ~Henry
David Thoreau |
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| Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau |
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| As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will
be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not
be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau |
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| The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
~Swedish Proverb |
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| What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from
within and from it create some semblance of order. ~Katherine
Paterson |
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| If a home doesn't make sense, nothing does. ~Henrietta
Ripperger |
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| The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of
more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
~Thomas Moore |
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| Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless
wants of life,and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~Edwin Teale |
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| Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out
how far one can go ... ~T.S. Eliot |
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| The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because
the only people who really know where it is are the ones who
have gone over. ~Hunter S. Thompson |
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| I know I'm in my own little world but that's okay, they
know me here. ~Unknown |
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| The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann |
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| First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they
fight you, then you win. ~Gandhi |
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| To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of
learning. ~Unknown |
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| Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body,
the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams
in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
~Robert Southey |
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| People often resist change for reasons that make good
sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational
goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate
accomplishments. ~Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
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| There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert
Allen |
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| Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| You always pass failure on your way to success.
~Mickey Rooney |
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| Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from
it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling
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| Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue
to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through
success; they often succeed through failures. ~Unknown
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The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely
better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
~Lloyd Jones |
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| Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain |
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| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every
wave, find your eternity in each moment. ~Henry David Thoreau |
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| Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck.
Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such
passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
~Vincent Van Gogh |
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| There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only
the infinite passion of life. ~Federico Fellini |
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| Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped
with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own
must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
~Winston Churchill |
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| Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John
Quincy Adams |
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| Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. ~Jean
Baptiste Moliere |
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| Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
~Charles Swindoll |
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| Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.
~Horace |
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| Time in the wild reminds me how much of what I ordinarily
do is mere dithering, how much of what I own is mere encumbrance.
The opposite of simplicity, as I understand it, is not complexity
but clutter. ~Scott Sander |
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| We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve
planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell |
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| The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~Plato |
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| Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you
have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom
in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not
too much who are the happiest. ~Peace Pilgrim |
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| Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot
of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F.
Schumacker |
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| Foul linen should be washed at home. ~French Proverb |
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| Be who you are and say what you feel because those who
mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr.
Seuss |
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| Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's
about learning to dance in the rain. ~Unknown |
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| Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if
you wish they were. ~Unknown |
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
~Unknown |
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| If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can
be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach
you. ~Calvin Coolidge |
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