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The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no goodness in attempting to coerce
another person into performing a good deed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An evil deed is not redeemed
by an evil deed in retaliation.
- Coretta Scott King (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings,
and deeds are listened to by all that is.
- Serge Kahili King
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth,
so virtue appears from good deeds,
and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.
To walk safely through the maze of human life,
one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
- The Buddha
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
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