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Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
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When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
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.
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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)
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 life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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