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May you find great value in these Civic quotes and sayings.
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
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 best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- 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
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Life is a reflection of intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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