To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
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