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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
Related topics: Wisdom Dream Myth
I believe in everything until it's disproved.
So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.
It all exists, even if it's in your mind.
Who's to say that dreams and nightmares
aren't as real as the here and now?
- John Lennon
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
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
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
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 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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
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.
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
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 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
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
"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
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
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
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
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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