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It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
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I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson 
My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Don't sweat the small stuff.
- Richard Carlson
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Revolutions go not backward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.
- e. e. cummings
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,
and yet not go forward fast enough
to wreck the country's cause.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment
without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.
Appropriate rituals channel your emotions
and life energy toward the light.
Without the discipline to practice them,
you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
- Lao Tzu
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
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)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- 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
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
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
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
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