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May you find great value in these Reconstruction quotes and sayings.
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
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The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
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
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- 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.
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
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
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
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