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Welcome to these Temples Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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There is no need for temples,
no need for complicated philosophies.
My brain and my heart are my temples;
my philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
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To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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