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Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
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If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have never experienced the practice
of daily journaling, give it a try. I highly recommend it.
When I say "journaling," I am not referring to a diary
in which to record the events of your life,
I am talking about a place to record your feelings -
a friend with whom to share your troubles, fears, hopes, and dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
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 offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
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
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
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