Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
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Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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 love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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