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May you find great value in these Nothingness quotes and sayings.
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
Related topics: Zen
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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
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 be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
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