Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength,
and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
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
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
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
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
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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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