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DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
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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
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)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
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Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
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Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
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Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
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.
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Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
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