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May these quotes about Human Nature inspire and motivate you.
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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