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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-
Joseph Campbell
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
-
Joseph Campbell
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-
Anais Nin
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
What you resist persists.
- Carl Jung
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-
Helen Keller
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-
The Buddha
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
-
Marshall McLuhan
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
-
Thomas Carlyle
The best vision is insight.
-
Malcolm Forbes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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