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Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens
reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbook
and look for ideas you can apply today -
perhaps an innocent optimism about life -
perhaps a hobby you loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
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
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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)
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- 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
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
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
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
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