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May you find great value in these quotes by Akbar the Great (1542-1605).
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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)
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- 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
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- 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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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