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A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
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
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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