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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true 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.
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- 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
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- 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)
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
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
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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