Life Quotes (11)
Quotes about Life

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus

Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

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

A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What if we like our outrageous side best?
We "know" that the "right" thing to do is to suck it up,
put the costume and the happy face back in storage for another year,
re-dress in our frown and gray flannel suit,
and trudge back to job, chores, "responsibilities," and "duty."
Stop! Maybe TODAY is the day to put the frown and gray flannel
into that dusty storage locker, and start to LIVE.
Not just today, but EVERY DAY for the rest of your life!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan

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

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

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