Quotes by Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie