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When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Heroism on command, senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -
how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
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.
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
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
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
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