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Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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