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Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
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He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
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- 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
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your 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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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