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Welcome to these Sum Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
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Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
Cloud Animals: Be a Child Again.
I remember warm summer afternoons,
laying in the shade of a maple tree in the back yard
of my Connecticut home watching the clouds for hours.
As those clouds formed dragons and foxes, clowns and angels,
I traveled across space and time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
- Albert Schweitzer
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
I left the "eye for an eye" God
when I walked out of Bible school,
but God Within is a daily part of my personal experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Story is a sacred visualization,
a way of echoing experience.
- Terry Tempest Williams
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought has a consequence.
And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
- Ernest Holmes
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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