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May you find great value in these quotes by Tennessee Williams.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
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If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- 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
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
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
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)
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
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
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
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
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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