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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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These ten great inspirational sayings about life come from diverse cultures and times. These sayings of inspiration represent the thread of enlightenment and compassion that has always run through the greatest among us, and are, to me, the best of the best.
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tsu
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-
Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-
Helen Keller
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-
Confucius
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-
Marie Curie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
-
James M. Barrie
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-
John Lennon
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
-
Dale Carnegie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
-
Zhuangzi
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-
Carl Jung
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
-
Helen Keller
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world. Visualize your light radiating throughout the world, passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Training yourself to live in the present - without regretting the past or fearing the future - is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel worried and depressed, consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Angry and happy don't mix. Flush out the angry, and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am unlimited.
I take responsibility for my life.
My every action is a conscious choice.
I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on.
I keep focus, and persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- 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
Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction between events and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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