Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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.
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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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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