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May these quotes about Fingers inspire and motivate you.
Have a talk with your mind
(it really is something separate from yourself).
Lay down the law.
"My life begins TODAY.
I am like a newborn.
I have what I have today;
I have my fingers, my toes,
some people in my life,
some material and financial state.
Yesterday is only a dream -
perhaps a nightmare,
perhaps a cherished memory,
but only a dream - nothing more.
I will make all decisions and actions based solely
on what I have today as a starting point."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu
Once I knew only darkness and stillness ...
my life was without past or future ...
but a little word from the fingers of another
fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness,
and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
- Helen Keller
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it keeps up, man will atrophy
all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
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)
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
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
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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