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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
So powerful is the light of unity
that it can illuminate the whole earth.
- Baha'u'llah
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
These are a few of my favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words.
Those who simplify the universe
only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Anais Nin
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
In the long history of the world,
only a few generations have been granted the role
of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
- John F. Kennedy
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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