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What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
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
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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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
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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