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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength,
the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
I look forward to a great future for America -
a future in which our country will match its military strength
with our moral restraint,
its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- John F. Kennedy
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Be alert. The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
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