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All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Related topics: Spiritual Live-By Unity
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
- Chief Seattle
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Man does not weave this web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
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)
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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.
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
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
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)
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
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
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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 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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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