I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Related topics: Wisdom
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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