You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
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In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
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
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
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 greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
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
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
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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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