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May you find great value in these Complementary quotes and sayings.
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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 has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
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 traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- 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
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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