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There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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 cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
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
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Drive into your future looking at the open road ahead
rather than into the rear-view mirror of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
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
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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