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Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy 
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Blessings flow toward gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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