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If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
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Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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