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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
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)
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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