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I hope you find these Jonathan Swift Quotes inspiring and motivational.
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
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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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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)
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
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
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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