Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being.
Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- Carl Jung
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.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
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)
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
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
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
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
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
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 fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
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
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
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
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
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
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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