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The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
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
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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