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The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Fix reason firmly in her seat,
and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there be one,
he must more approve of the homage of reason,
than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not seek the Republican answer
or the Democratic answer,
but the right answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past.
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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 life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a reflection of intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
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