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The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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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
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you follow the trail of your own
enthusiastically repeated stories,
you will begin to rediscover the things
that invigorate and enliven you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I forgive myself completely for having created stories of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal
I forgive myself completely
for having created stories of suffering.
I forgive myself for all
my angers, resentments, jealousies,
and all the other emotions of suffering.
I have unbounded compassion for myself
at all times and under all circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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