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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
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Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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