Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord,
for I was not anchored to a house or farm,
but could follow the bent of my genius,
which is a very crooked one, every moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am simultaneously ME - an independent BEing
of free-will and bold courage,
and ME - an integral and inseparable element
of the web of timeless creation.
I am a paradox - a duality -
and yet an entirely unified ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hero needed - apply now -
open minded independent thinker -
courage preferred.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
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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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