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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

All compromise is based on give and take,
but there can be no give and take on fundamentals.
Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender.
For it is all give and no take.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir

I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation.
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
As a peacemaker the lawyer has
superior opportunity of being a good man.
There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori

It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell

Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

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)

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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