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It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
An "enemy" is a mirage -
an image of self reflected on the sands of Hell.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
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
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Pride" is such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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