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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
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
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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