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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- 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
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
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
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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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
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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Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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