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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ugliest word in the world is revenge.
It spells hate; it spells fear; it spells greed.
For my loss, I must kill; I must steal - must avenge.
It's your fault; you must pay; you must bleed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot.
Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
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
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot discover new oceans unless
you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
- Anonymous
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I get bored very easily, ...
I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive
if I'm repeating something I'm good at.
So I'm always looking for new challenges.
- Jewel
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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