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Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I offer gentle understanding to myself.
I position myself in love, not fear.
I look behind me with forgiveness.
I look forward with festive anticipation.
I embrace this holy moment and assert,
"Now. This moment is the moment to love,
the moment to serve, the moment to seize
the legacy instead of the small.
Now. Now I will live large, love boldly,
reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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