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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Wisdom
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas! how little does the memory
of these human inhabitants
enhance the beauty of the landscape.
- Henry David Thoreau
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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 mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- 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
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
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.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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