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What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- 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
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
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
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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