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The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Wisdom

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda

The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death

Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks

The task of the modern educator
is not to cut down jungles,
but to irrigate deserts.
- C.S. Lewis

This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

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)

Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

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

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

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

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