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The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Individually, we do have our crises -
mostly from unexpected directions,
but so have all people from all ages.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
I have learned, that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Let today be a day to trust your own inner guidance,
a day to have faith that your steps are carrying you
in the direction you desire,
a day to keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seeing my glass of life as mostly full
triggers an amazing cycle of transformation
Appreciation for the abundance of life incites gratitude -
which brings on that warm comfortable
feeling of joy and satisfaction with life.
Gratitude for abundance also creates increasing abundance.
Being truly grateful for the abundance that
is now in my life causes an ever greater abundance
to flow in my direction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary;
new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor
in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
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
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
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
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
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