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The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
By having a reverence for life,
we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
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.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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)
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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 lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
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
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
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
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
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
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
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
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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