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Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The sacred altar of all existence
is where we meet our ancestors
and our descendants yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Expectation (demand) is always a cause of suffering.
Rather than "expecting" to be repaid
when we "loan" something to someone,
consider the "loans" we make to be forward payments
for the "loans" we received from
our ancestors, nurturers and others.
Request that any "loan" that we make be repaid FORWARD,
when the recipient is able,
and then completely forget about the "loan."
It is no longer our business if, when, or how
the "loan" is repaid - or is not repaid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Stay in the moment and all gifts are added
as you breathe and take inspired action.
- Joe Vitale
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,
Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -
The Values of an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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