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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
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A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
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We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
- Lao Tzu
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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