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Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster
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The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected
in a cosmic religion for the future:
It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;
it covers both the natural and the spiritual,
and it is based on a religious sense
aspiring from the experience of all things,
natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
- Albert Einstein
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
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
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
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
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