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I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Related topics: Wisdom
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The cost of a thing is the amount
of what I will call life
which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is more difference in the quality
of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root,
and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount
of time and money on the needy
is doing the most by his mode of life
to produce that misery
which he strives in vain to relieve.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart
Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price.
May He be so to every one of us.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing,
but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Amelia Earhart
If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free my brothers and sisters
from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe
to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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)
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
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