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May these quotes about Elders inspire and motivate you.
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
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For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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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
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
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
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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