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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love what is.
- Byron Katie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
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
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
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 words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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