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Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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)
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- 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
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- 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
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- 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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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