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Welcome to these Inhospitable Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long
because I am too inhospitable a host.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is serious, get out your magic wand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious, get out your magic wand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The one serious conviction that a man should have
is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys,
which distract our attention from serious things.
They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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