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Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- 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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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 don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
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
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
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 any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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 are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
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