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Everything has beauty,
by Confucius

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

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Quotes by Confucius

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- 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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- 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 impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Everything Quotes and Sayings

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal

Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone

Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous

Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous

By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller

When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I want to thank my parents for everything I am today -
fat, miserable, and paranoid.
- Anonymous

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

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