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Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Related topics: Wisdom Criticism Critical Blame
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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)
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?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- 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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
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
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
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