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May you find great value in these Gestures quotes and sayings.
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Mother Teresa
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
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