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Wise Quotes about Unreasonable

May you find great value in these Unreasonable quotes and sayings.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Forgiveness

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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