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If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
- Yogi Berra
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Joseph Campbell
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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