Favorite Quotes to Live By
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll 
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- 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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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 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
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
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