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They must often change,
by Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Related topics: Wisdom

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

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

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

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

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

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

I've learned that mistakes can often be
as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play as often as you can.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman

Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Today is my day to laugh loud - laugh often
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie