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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

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Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors

Oh, Shrek. Don't worry.
Things just seem bad because it's dark and rainy
and Fiona's father hired a sleazy hitman to whack you.
- the movie Shrek 2

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

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)

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)

What this country needs is a credit card for
charging things to experience.
- Tom Wilson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo

There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Of all the things that could frighten you,
you worry about my driving?
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves

Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts are things, and all the things in one's life
have a thought that precedes them.
- Ernest Holmes

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

It is a characteristic of wisdom
not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

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

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things
that I'm longing to say.
Scared to confess what I'm feeling -
frightened you'll slip away.
- the movie Evita

Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

All other things being equal,
the simplest explanation is the most likely.
- a statement of Occam's Razor

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie