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May you find great value in these Vegas quotes and sayings.
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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The ad agency's name for Hell is "Las Vegas."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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 really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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 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 as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
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.
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