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Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
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Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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- 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
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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 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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
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