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John Steinbeck Quotes

I hope you find these John Steinbeck Quotes inspiring and motivational.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)

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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)


 

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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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 tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore


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