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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
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I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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