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Surpasses Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Surpasses Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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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 traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

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

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

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

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

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

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

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

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

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

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

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton

Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

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

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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