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I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller

Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung

While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities,
and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll

I CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration:
I renounce all assumptions and expectations,
and declare that I will thoughtfully consider
all possibilities and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Science merely quantifies and documents
the relationships among miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces
of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves,
then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
- Leon Battista Alberti

Adolescents are not monsters.
They are just people trying to learn how to make it
among the adults in the world,
who are probably not so sure themselves.
- Virginia Satir

The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
- Mary Wollstonecraft

The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
- Antonio Tabucchi

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers,
so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Bricks to all greenhouses!
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor
in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
- Khalil Gibran

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look
like independent thinkers.
- Edgar R. Fiedler

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
- William Blake

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

Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows
nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- John Marshall Harlan

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now,
I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are
paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
- Andre Malraux

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
- William Temple

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising
to create awareness among readers,
nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines
to get their books reviewed.
- Sara Paretsky

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis
was among the first which occurred to scientists.
- Serge Lang

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
- Nikita Khrushchev

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed
for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size
of budget deficits among the eleven countries.
- Robert C. Solomon

We moralize among ruins.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself.
Life is most readily renounced at the time and among
the classes where it is least harsh.
- Emile Durkheim

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
- John Carpenter

Among the notable things about fire is that it also
requires oxygen to burn -
exactly like its enemy,
life.
Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
- Otto Weininger

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
- Orson Scott Card

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart:
he is,
whatever he may do, a stranger among men;
he is marked by a sign.
- Ernest Renan

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and
Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
- Thomas E. Mann

To Adam Paradise was home.
To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
- Augustus Hare

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
- Mao Tse-Tung

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of
arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and
perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
- Mercy Otis Warren

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
- Leo Rosten

The New Testament presents, in its way,
the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ.
In this sense also 'the word became flesh,
and dwells among us.'
- Philip Schaff

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice
among the nine Democratic candidates.
- Bob Graham

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists
as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
- Jose Bergamin

The people among which I lived - and yet live,
mainly - made their living from cotton,
wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business
men and professional men.
- Robert E. Howard

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend,
the more does competition extend among the workers,
the more do their wages shrink together.
- Karl Marx

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
- Saul Bellow

Most groups today aren't groups.
In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
- Robby Krieger

Let no man write my epitaph...
When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth,
then shall my character be vindicated,
then may my epitaph be written.
- Robert Emmet

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god,
and so he decided to teach himself other instruments.
Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
- Michael Stipe

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which
was very popular among youngsters.
- Maximilian Schell

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change
in values taking place among consumers,
who become more concerned about quality of life,
food, health and the environment.
- David Korten

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
- Charles Eastman

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing,
and that's all you'll ever find.'
- Robert J. Flaherty

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical
efforts to secure the desired end.
- George Santayana

The self thus becomes aware of itself,
at least in its practical action, and discovers itself
as a cause among other causes and as an object subject
to the same laws as other objects.
- Jean Piaget

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
- Sun Ra

And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.
- John Dyer

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those
who complied with the injunctions of the laws,
Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
- Xenophon

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread.
Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;
is better than a whole loaf.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is socialism among two people.
- Barbara Ehrenreich

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the
Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
- David Dinkins