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The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the quality of the moment,
not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
There is more difference in the quality
of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen says that if you drop knowledge -
and within knowledge everything is included;
your name, your identity, everything,
because this has been given to you by others -
if you drop all that has been given by others,
you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence.
This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality,
and there will be a resurrection of your innocence.
You will become a child again, reborn.
- Osho
Creativity is the quality that you bring
to the activity that you are doing.
It is an attitude, an inner approach -
how you look at things.
- Osho
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.
Then what will be the quality?
Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated,
centered, loving, flowing, one walks.
And the walking is sauntering.
Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated -
not sitting for anything in particular,
just enjoying how beautiful
just sitting doing nothing is,
how relaxing, how restful.
- Osho
To affect the quality of the day,
that is the highest of arts.
- Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
I feel the same way about solitude as some people
feel about the blessing of the church.
It's the light of grace for me.
I never close my door behind me without the awareness
that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
- Peter Hoeg
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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