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May these quotes about Oscillation inspire and motivate you.
Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken
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Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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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)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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