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May these quotes about Sixties inspire and motivate you.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche
that must have been left behind in the Sixties,
that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
- John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities
and the responsibility that we all had.
It wasn't the answer.
It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
- John Lennon
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
a ship going to discover the New World.
And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
- John Lennon
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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
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
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
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 want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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