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Become "a lover of what is." ...
by Byron Katie

Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie

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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

Love what is.
- Byron Katie

The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

If you want something to be different than it is,
you might as well teach a cat to bark.
Wanting something to be different than it is, is hopeless.
- Byron Katie

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

What we think, we become.
- The Buddha

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer

An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter

USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim

You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha

Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith

You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins

May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie