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May you find great value in these Incessant quotes and sayings.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
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You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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