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Things are only impossible until they're not. ...
by Star Trek

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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

Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

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)

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

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