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Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth always rests with the minority,
and the minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion,
while the strength of a majority is illusory,
formed by the gangs who have no opinion -
and who, therefore, in the next instant
(when it is evident that the minority is the stronger)
assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I Give Thanks for EVERYTHING that has Occurred
to Bring Me to This Instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bless EVERYTHING That Has Occurred To Bring Me To This Instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I give thanks for everything that has occurred
to bring me to this moment in time.
Every event that has ever occurred in my life
has played a crucial role in delivering me to this instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- 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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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