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The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Related topics: Wisdom
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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.
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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 way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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