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Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Positive Life Human-Nature Psychology Sad Feeling-Down
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 
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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