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I hope you find these Colette Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
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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
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
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 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
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.
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
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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