Human Nature Quotes

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

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

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

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

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

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

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

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

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

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

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

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

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

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

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

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

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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