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I hope you find these Simple Truths Quotes inspiring and motivational.
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational Unity Oneness
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
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.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
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
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
"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 know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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 you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
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
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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