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When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The River of Life has no judgments.
- 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
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- 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
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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