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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
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My life is the eye of the hurricane -
an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- 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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Life is a reflection of intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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