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From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
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
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
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
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