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Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard
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
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 risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
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