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I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Affirmations Positive Inspirational Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whose laws have priority in your life?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- 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
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
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
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
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
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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)
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at 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
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
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