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Nothing happens unless first a dream. ...
by Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

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Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

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

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

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

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie