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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Wisdom
You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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 as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
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 more you see the less you know.
- Bono
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
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
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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