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May you find great value in these quotes by Hunter S. Thompson.
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- 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
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is lived between the lines.
- 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
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
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