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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Love what is.
- Byron Katie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- 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 really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish 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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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