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In short I will part with anything for you but you. – Mary Wortley Montagu

All worries are less with wine.”
― Amit Kalantri

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough.” – Osho

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” — Michael Phelps

Living is abnormal. – Eugene Ionesco

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage. - Charles A. Beard

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings. - Alex Grey

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

Conflict cannot survive without your participation. - Wayne Dyer

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. - T. C. Boyle

“But hunger could wear down even the bravest heart.”
― Marcia Armandi, Awaken

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Christian Nestell Bovee

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief." - William Shakespeare.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. – T. C. Boyle

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. - Simón Bolívar

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. - Thomas Jefferson

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision. - Daniel Kahneman

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
— Socrates

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. - Dalai Lama

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? - St Augustine

An unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates

With all due respect, I am against dumb. - John Kennedy

“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Nelson Mandela

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." —Anne Lamott

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. - Christopher Morley

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. - Joseph Joubert

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

My love is not a trap and you are no wounded animal. – The Only Ones (film)

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. - George MacDonald

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. - Alfred Adler

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. – Christian Nestell Bovee

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. - Henry David Thoreau

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

Nelson Mandela

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. – William Shakespeare

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. - Rob Reiner (RIP)

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ~ Socrates

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

Envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracian

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.― Nicholas Sparks

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.― Nicholas Sparks

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. – George MacDonald

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
― Roy T. Bennett

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. - John Greenleaf Whittier

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.”
― George Eliot

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” — Native American Proverb

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. - David Bohm

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. - David Bohm

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. - Hosea Ballou

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness. - Mauro Ranallo

“The past is never where you think you left it.”― Katherine Anne Porter

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire. - Joseph Smith, Jr.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Alfred Adler

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
― Hamilton Wright Mabie

For it is in giving that we receive. - Francis of Assisi

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ' Jerome K. Jerome

“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
― Bob Marley

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp

“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. - Charles Babbage

“And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.”
― Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. - Mortimer Adler

“It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.”
― Rain Cooper

. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” — Vince Lombardi

“I thought that I needed your apology to
move on.
I really needed to forgive myself
first.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. - Winston Churchill

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
Paulo Coelho

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. - Stephen Jay Gould

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
― Aleister Crowley

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. - Frances Wright

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Exactitude is not truth. - Henri Matisse

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. - E. M. Forster

Number 5

Of The Five Reiki Principles

Just for today, I will be kind to every living thing. (Show compassion to yourself and others).

Mikao Usui

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young. - Val Kilmer