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It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia.
But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa,
whereby its leaders combine in their efforts
to solve the problems of this continent.
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests,
of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela
Communists have always played an active role
in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom,
because the short-term objects of Communism
would always correspond with
the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
The existence of an anthropomorphic
"Father-figure" deity is not impossible,
merely exceptionally improbable and illogical.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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