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May you find great value in these Urge quotes and sayings.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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 not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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 best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
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
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
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
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