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May you find great value in these Thorn quotes and sayings.
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
Like a Rose, I Thrive -
Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths
that give life perspective and meaning.
- Criswell Freeman
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
Silence is a source of great strength.
- 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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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
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 really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- 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
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- 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
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
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
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
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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