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A newborn does not have worry, or stress, or anger,
because they have not yet learned those things.
Consider what life would be like if you could
forget all the past resentments and perceived offenses
that color your thinking and your emotions.
Buddhists call that state "beginner mind" -
an opening to experience life
without the jaundiced filter of past disappointments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of potential -
for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should have at least two friends -
one to talk to and one to talk about.
- Anonymous
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
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