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It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein 
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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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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 as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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