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Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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)
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
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
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.
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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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