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I hope you find these Somerset Maugham Quotes inspiring and motivational.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
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)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
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
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
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
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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