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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
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
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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 not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- 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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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