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Welcome to these Insight Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
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
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
When you open up to the ultimate,
immediately it pours into you.
You are no longer an ordinary human being -
you have transcended.
Your insight has become the
insight of the whole existence.
Now you are no longer separate -
you have found your roots.
- Osho
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.
I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.
I understand that my way is not the only way -
that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others,
and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness
from the ideas and traditions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
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Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
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Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
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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
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Accept Circumstances - Choose Responses.
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Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not what we choose that is important;
it is the reason we choose it.
- Carolyn Myss
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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