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May you find great value in these quotes by John Steinbeck.
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is,
and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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