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I hope you find these Billy Wilder Quotes inspiring and motivational.
If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
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Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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)
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
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
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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