When someone is going through a storm,
Your silent presence is more powerful
Than a million empty words
~ Unknown ~
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops at all
~ Emily Dickinson ~
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself
That you never really knew
~ Cicely Tyson ~
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Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn ones back on life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned
So as to have the life that is waiting for us
~ Joseph Campbell ~
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When you have come to the edge of all the light you know,
And are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
One of two things will happen;
There will be something solid to stand on,
Or, you will be taught to fly.
~ Anonymous ~
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Promise me you’ll always remember; you’re braver than you believe
And stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think
~ Christopher Robin to Pooh Bear ~
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“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
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“Teach us…that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”
Jane Austen
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“All shadows whisper of the sun.”
Emanuel Carnevali
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“Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful colour.”
Paul Cézanne
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“An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.”
Confucius
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl
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“You can’t make up time; you can only use what’s left, better.”
Oscar G. Darlington
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“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Hide not your talents. They for use were made.
What’s a sundial in the shade?”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
Victor Hugo
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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
Ralph Marston
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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
Dr. Seuss
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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams…”
Arthur O’Shaughnessy
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“How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you’ve imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Life is the conversion of time into memories.”
Aaron R. Warren
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“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Walt Whitman
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“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment
is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah Winfrey
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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides
yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can see the beauty, believe in them,
and try to follow where they lead.”
Louisa May Alcott
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
Muhammad Ali
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“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success;
if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.”
David Ambrose
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“Some of the most wonderful people
are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.”
Tori Amos
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“Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what
I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord;
to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.”
Maya Angelou
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“Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
Archimedes
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“I count him braver who conquers his desires
than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
Aristotle
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“Goodness does not consist in greatness,
but greatness in goodness.”
Athenaeus
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“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
Lauren Bacall
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“Each day is a journey; and the journey itself is home.”
Basho
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“Genius is childhood recaptured at will.”
Baudelaire
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Sophia Bedford-Pierce
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“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
George Berkeley
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“Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity
for the light to burn brighter.”
Bono
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“Don’t go through life, grow through life.”
Eric Butterworth
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“All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself.”
Eileen Caddy
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“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
Thomas Carlyle
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“Time and reflection change the sight little by little
’till we come to understand.”
Paul Cézanne
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“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Confucius
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“When you meet someone better than yourself,
turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.
When you meet someone not as good as you are,
look within and examine your own self.”
Confucius
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“The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow,
the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie Curie
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“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.”
Eugene Delacroix
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“It is not enough to have a good mind;
the main thing is to use it well.”
Rene Descartes
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“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
Emily Dickinson
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
Laertius Diogenes
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“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
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“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs
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“Our intention creates our reality.”
Wayne Dyer
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“If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
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“Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The invariable mark of wisdom
is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.”
Epictetus
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“There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas Everett
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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
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“Normal is not something to aspire to,
it’s something to get away from.”
Jodie Foster
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“At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
Goethe
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“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
Syndey J. Harris
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“Nothing endures but change.”
Heraclitus
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“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
Victor Hugo
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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.”
Henry James
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“A human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
William James
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung
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“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Helen Keller
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
John F. Kennedy
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“Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’
I dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’”
Robert Kennedy
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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”
Joyce Kilmer
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“Believe the best of everybody.”
Rudyard Kipling
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“You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.”
John Lennon
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
John Lubbock
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“The measure of a man’s real character
is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“I am still learning.”
Michelangelo
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“Keep a good heart. That’s the most important thing in life.
It’s not how much money you make or what you can acquire.
The art of it is to keep a good heart.”
Joni Mitchell
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“Those who dance are thought to be quite insane
by those who cannot hear the music.”
Angela Monet
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“No tool is more beneficial than intelligence.
No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.”
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
Napoleon
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“The sun doesn’t stop shining because
some people are blind.”
Mark Nepo
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“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We don’t see things as they are,
we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
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“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid
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“Believe deep down in your heart
that you’re destined to do great things.”
Joe Paterno
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“The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.”
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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“The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth,
and is not content with common opinion,
but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion
till he grasps the essential nature of things.”
Plato
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which those who dream only by night may miss.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
John Powell
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“The fountain of beauty is the heart,
and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”
Francis Quarles
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“The life you have led doesn’t have to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen
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“If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always gotten”
Anthony Robbins
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“To succeed you have to believe in something
with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”
Anita Roddick
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“The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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“What we think or what we believe is, in the end,
of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.”
John Ruskin
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“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought
will never be able to change reality.”
Anwar Sadat
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“Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.”
John Sales
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“Faith is believing in things
when common sense tells you not to.”
George Seaton
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“No man was ever wise by chance.”
Seneca
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“Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?”
William Shakespeare
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves
as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
Sophocles
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“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”
Sophocles
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“Know thyself.”
Socrates
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“There is no possession more valuable
than a good and faithful friend.”
Socrates
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“Carve your name on hearts and not marble.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
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“I don’t try to feed all the birds in the world;
I just feed the birds that come to my bird feeder.”
Bob Stoll
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“May you live all the days of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
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“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Publilius Syrus
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“Stressing is pointless.”
Maxwell J. Tallman
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“Fortune favours the brave.”
Terence
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“Things do not change, we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire
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“We have so much time and so little to do!
Strike that. Reverse it.”
Willy Wonka
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
If you…ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty,
it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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We have all been given free will,
and the direction we choose to go is up to us…
A man can live out his entire life without ever
finding more than what was already
within him as his Beginning Gift,
but if he wishes to Grow he must become a Seeker
and Seek for himself the other Ways.
Hyemeyohsts Storm
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Everything that gives birth is Female.
When Men begin to understand the relationships of the Universe
that Women have always known, the World will begin to change for the better.
~Lorraine Canoe
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Great Spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~Albert Einstein
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We Humans must come again to a moral comprehension of the Earth and Air.
We must live according to the principle of a Land Ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.
~N. Scott Momaday
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The air, blowing everywhere, serves all Creatures.
~Hildegarde of Bingen
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Know that, by nature, every creature seeks to become like God…
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not,
secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the
track on which God may be found.
~Meister Johannes Eckhart
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
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Good judgment comes from experience…
experience comes from poor judgment.
~Unknown
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Hope has two beautiful daughters,
their names are anger and courage.
Anger that things are the way they are.
Courage to make them the way they ought to be.
~St. Augustine
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Our determining Spirit can be made whole only through
the learning of our harmony with all our Brothers and Sisters,
and with all the other Spirits of the Universe.
~Hyemeyohsts Storm
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
~Joseph Chilton Pearce
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When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step
into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things
will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will learn to fly.
~Unknown
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Just because a great many people believe in something is no
guarantee of its truth.
~Gandhi
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What we do anywhere matters… It matters very much.
Mesas and Mountains, Rivers and Trees,
Winds and Rains are as sensitive
to the actions and thoughts of Humans
as we are to their forces.
They take into themselves
what we give off and give it out again.
~Edith Warner
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Sometimes it’s better to treat the wound
than beat the dog that bit you.
~James W. Larsen
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An eye for an eye, makes the world go blind.
~Gandhi
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Nobody trips over mountains.
It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.
Pass all the pebbles in your Path
and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~Unknown
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Some decades ago I attended a burial in a Christian cemetery at Mission, South Dakota. After the body was in the grave and the several mourners were standing at the grave, an old woman stepped forward and put an orange on the grave. The Episcopal priest who had conducted the service rushed over and took the orange away, saying “When do you think the departed will come and eat this orange?” One of the Sioux men standing there said “When the Soul comes to smell the flowers.” No one said anything after that!
~Vine Deloria, Jr.
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My imagination is the limit, My heart is the source.
~James Whitesun
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The smarter a man is, the more he needs God to protect him from
thinking he knows everything.
~George Webb
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It has become inherently obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
~Albert Einstein
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A noble Soul has reverence for itself.
~Unknown
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Just when you get to thinkin’ you’re pretty important,
try bossing somebody else’s dog around.
~Unknown
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A man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything!
~Malcolm X
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If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the present way of civilization,
I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child’s feet
in the Path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
~Tom Brown, Jr.
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We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
~Qwatsinas
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You won’t discover the limits of the Soul, however far you go.
~Heraclitus
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The great man shows his greatness
by the way he treats the little man.
~H. Brown
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Miracles are not contrary to Nature,
only to what we know of Nature.
~St. Augustine
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