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What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot (Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890)
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drive into your future looking at the open road ahead
rather than into the rear-view mirror of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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