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May you find great value in these quotes by Jonathan Swift.
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Related topics: Wisdom
It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
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 as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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 understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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