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I hope you find these Truman Capote Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
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One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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