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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
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I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
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Honor tradition AND question tradition.
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The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
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Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
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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 in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards
our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
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When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes
which a man can change at will - and put on at will?
Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
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Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
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We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Nothing is missing - Lack is an illusion.
We always have everything we truly need.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
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An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
Anger spells dANGER.
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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