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You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment
without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.
Appropriate rituals channel your emotions
and life energy toward the light.
Without the discipline to practice them,
you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
- Lao Tzu
To enjoy good health,
to bring true happiness to one's family,
to bring peace to all, one must first
discipline and control one's own mind.
If a man can control his mind
he can find the way to Enlightenment,
and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- The Buddha
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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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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
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
WHY do you care what THEY think?
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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
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
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
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