Life is really simple,
by Confucius

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

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

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

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

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

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- 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

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

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

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

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

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