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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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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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

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

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 spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
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Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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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.

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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)

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

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

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

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus

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

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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)

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

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