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There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
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There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Simple living is the way to happy living.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
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Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
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Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
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True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
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A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
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