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Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
Related topics: Wisdom
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- 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
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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