O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done. ...
by Walt Whitman

O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

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

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

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

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

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

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

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy

At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton

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

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

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

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

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