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The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Expectations Diminish Joy.
- Anonymous
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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