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Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
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The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
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
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
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
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
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
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
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- 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
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Spirit is within me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I allow life to wash over me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say "YES" to the opportunities life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My bold life awaits me. I answer the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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