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May you find great value in these Islands quotes and sayings.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
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My life is the eye of the hurricane -
an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
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 as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
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
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- 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
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
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