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Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost… — Edward Steichen
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two… — Rajneesh
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple… — Rajneesh
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers,… — Rajneesh
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life… — Rajneesh
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it… — Rajneesh
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,… — Rajneesh
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… — Mark Helprin
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. — John F. Kennedy
What is simple is false and what is not is useless. — Paul Valery
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor...… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. — Euripides
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. — Joan Miro
ÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙArt house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have… — Werner Herzog
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven. — Frederick Buechner
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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