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Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
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Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts
filed away just below the conscious level.
- Joyce Brothers
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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)
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
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