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Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
- Henry Van Dyke
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
"Pride" is one of those really crazy words,
and such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge, and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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