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We cling to our own point of view,
by Zhuangzi

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
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I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
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Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
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The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
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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.
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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
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It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene

NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
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If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel

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

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
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The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
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We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
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Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

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

We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
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We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
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We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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
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Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
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Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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