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Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is always safety in valor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only four questions of value in life...
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for,
and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same: only love.
- Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
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
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,
with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,
and that all of these are one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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