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The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
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Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbook
and look for ideas you can apply today -
perhaps an innocent optimism about life -
perhaps a hobby you loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary.
Choosing a school, choosing a career,
getting married, having kids -
all those things are scary.
If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
- Paul Tornier
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The school is the last expenditure upon which America
should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
In this outward and physical ceremony,
we attest once again to the inner
and spiritual strength of our Nation.
As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say:
"We must adjust to changing times,
and still hold to unchanging principles."
- Jimmy Carter
Education is what remains after one has forgotten
what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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