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Let these inspiring quotes encourage you to have a more positive attitude toward life.
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- 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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
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
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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