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You cannot teach a man anything;
by Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

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Quotes by Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

You Quotes and Sayings

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

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)

Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you would convince others,
seem open to conviction yourself.
- Lord Chesterfield

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

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