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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Related topics: Motivational
A newborn does not have worry, or stress, or anger,
because they have not yet learned those things.
Consider what life would be like if you could
forget all the past resentments and perceived offenses
that color your thinking and your emotions.
Buddhists call that state "beginner mind" -
an opening to experience life
without the jaundiced filter of past disappointments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
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."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror.
As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
- Carl Jung
Be clear that expectations are demands.
Demanding that life turn out the way we prefer
is a sure path to disappointment and suffering.
Happiness lies in having no expectations,
and accepting life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,
are neither your mind nor your body.
Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.
Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,
as when it twitches or pains.
Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.
That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,
shame, foreboding, worry, and fear
is your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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 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
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
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
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