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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
The career of a sage is of two kinds:
He is either honored by all in the world,
Like a flower waving its head,
Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Lao Tzu
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
- Anonymous
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves.
- Trieu Thi Trinh
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
I wish you a magical white rabbit kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
I wish you a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wish you a tea and jammies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
Independence of nation begins with independence of self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
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