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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
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed) 
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
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The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing
but in the midst of living.
- 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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Dance with a Light Heart.
I 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
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
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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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
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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 purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
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
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
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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