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May these quotes about Antique inspire and motivate you.
Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
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
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
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However carefully we plan our future,
we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.
While it is important to our happiness
that we have an intent for our lives,
it is equally crucial to accept in advance
that we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -
and that is good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
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