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Welcome to these Luxury Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
Related topics: Values Happiness
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
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)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
I open myself for the word of Spirit to flow through me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every day I give thanks that I am me,
and that everything that has ever occurred in my life
happened exactly as it did -
however unpleasant it may have appeared at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
RESPONSIBILITY: Fulfill the obligations that the past posts to me.
Embrace the opportunity for service based in love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
My bold life awaits me. I answer the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I love, without condition, myself,
all those around me,
and all those in my thoughts,
this day and evermore. Amen
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together,
keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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