Master Yuanwu
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
They're here !
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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After your jump, the net appears.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
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Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
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I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Live with passion !
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I think therefore I am
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
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Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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We all go a little mad sometimes.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
It's never too late.