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Quotes about Life
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Human-Nature Psychology
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
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We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
If you have zest and enthusiasm y
ou attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Question every assumption and expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
A broken bone can heal, but the wound
a word opens can fester forever.
- Jessamyn West
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Humans are essentially storytellers.
- Walter Fisher
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Only good comes from being honest and true.
Only harm and suffering cone from falsehood.
It doesn't always feel as if good comes from truth and honesty,
but, in the long run, it does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch your toes when you waltz with life, Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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