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Welcome to these Tenses Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses,
the past and the future.
The present is not part of time,
the present is part of eternity.
- Osho
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The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- 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
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
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.
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- 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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
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
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
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
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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