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May you find great value in these quotes by Erma Bombeck.
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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