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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow 
The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious,
and manifests itself in the body.
- Irene Claremont de Castillejo
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
The people will save their government,
if the government itself will allow them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
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
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance is itself a form of violence
and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Sheri Rosenthal
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot (Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890)
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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