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All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
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
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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
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
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
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
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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