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May these quotes about Elegance inspire and motivate you.
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
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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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
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
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)
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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