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The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
Related topics: Values Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Love Purpose Life-Purpose Service
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Know that miracles are the natural way of the Universe
Your only job is to move your doubting mind out of the way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dance... enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
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