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To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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)
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
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Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Know that you are special, and unique in all creation.
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You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are never alone.
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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
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Know that the darkest night is often
the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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