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May these quotes about Castles inspire and motivate you.
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
Life is your playground.
Fashion grand castles and sweeping boulevards,
defeat fire-breathing dragons,
leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- 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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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