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Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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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)
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
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
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
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
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
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
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- 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
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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