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People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Related topics: Motivational Cooperation Teamwork
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis
Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
- Lao Tzu
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than 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
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
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
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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