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Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
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
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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 wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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