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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
All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a characteristic of wisdom
not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not hold fear about what is happening in the world.
I am responsible for how I conduct myself in the events of my days,
and endeavor to not dwell in fear about anything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams
and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined,
you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war;
but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on,
we must defend ourselves.
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether
it was fired from within or without,
we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
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
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
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
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
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