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Uplifting Quotes about Life

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is - where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life. Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
-
Confucius
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Inspirational Sayings about Life
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is a Book of Riddles, with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones - that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sayings and Quotes of Encouragement and Inspiration in Life
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages that holds the key to breaking our cycle of self-imposed suffering. The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don’t have the power to make life “fair,” but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life’s storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I forgive everyone for every “wrong” that I believe they have ever inflicted upon me. I forgive them for my own sake, that I may release the venom – the anger and resentment within myself - and regain my joy and serenity. I have compassion for everyone who has ever been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of “fault," there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health to those I call friend, to those I call enemy, and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply and gratefully - never from making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be a passionate Observer of Life. See the events, feel the emotions, and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction between events and one’s feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great. Believing that one’s personal opinion is absolute truth leads to most of the world’s troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A reflection of life is not life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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