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I hope you find these Hunter S. Thompson Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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 is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
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
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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