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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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