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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
Related topics: Positive Motivational Encouraging Humor
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
- Stephen Hawking
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys
on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- 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
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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 defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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