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May you find great value in these Northern quotes and sayings.
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Washington is a city of
Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
We are asking the nations of Europe
between whom rivers of blood have flowed
to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- 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
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
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