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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
In many ways, it is easier to be a good giver than a good receiver.
The giver chooses the gift and the timing.
More important, societal and religious traditions
tend to elevate the status of giver and lower the status of receiver.
When the Bible (Acts 20:32-35) speaks of it being
more blessed to give than to receive,
I believe that a better translation might be
"take" rather than "receive," as the context
of that passage is "coveting."
Certainly there is nothing blessed about coveting,
stealing, begging, or demanding,
however the skill of graciously receiving a freely offered gift
is another matter entirely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Surely God would not have created such a being as man,
with an ability to grasp the infinite,
to exist only for a day!
No, no, man was made for immortality.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
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
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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- 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
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
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 can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
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
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
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