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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
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