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Welcome to these Leaf Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Related topics: Christian Religion
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.
- Anais Nin
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
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.
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
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
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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