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Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
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
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
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
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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