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May you find great value in these Jam quotes and sayings.
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses,
a telescope and a microscope.
And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance
through the tender hearts of my friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
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