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May you find great value in these Conventional quotes and sayings.
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
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People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
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 best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 a choice.
- Anonymous
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
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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