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May these quotes about Elephants inspire and motivate you.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants;
crow in the company of cocks;
bleat in a flock of goats.
- Malayan Proverb
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
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)
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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)
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
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You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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 only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- 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.
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
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
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
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