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May you find great value in these Tragic quotes and sayings.
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
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 can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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)
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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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 greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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