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A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
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
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
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 have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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
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
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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