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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
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
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 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)
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
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
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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