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May you find great value in these Lifts quotes and sayings.
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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