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You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call 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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
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)
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
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