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I hope you find these Morris West Quotes inspiring and motivational.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
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