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Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
- Lao Tzu
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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 are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
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