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You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
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 build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
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