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I hope you find these Alan Alda Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
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
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
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
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
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
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