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May these quotes about Villages inspire and motivate you.
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
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
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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