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A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
Related topics: Values
"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us believe that we have
been betrayed by someone outside of us -
in other words someone has done something to hurt us,
been dishonest or broken a promise made:
some trust in some concept was broken.
Indeed someone may have taken an action
that took only their needs into consideration,
they may have not followed through on a promise made,
and they may have not told you the truth.
But their actions have nothing to do with you
and have everything to do with them.
That's why no one can do anything TO you.
They can take actions that involve you that you may not like -
according to your point of view.
But you are not a victim, no way, no how.
- Sheri Rosenthal
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- John Lennon
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get over it - Life isn't Supposed to be fair.
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Get over yourself, and be of service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- 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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- 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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- 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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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