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Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Life is a reflection of intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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