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Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
Related topics: Wisdom
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true 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
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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