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May you find great value in these quotes by Alan Cohen.
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If you have to have it, it's ego.
If you have to not have it, it's ego.
Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need
and release what you don't.
- Alan Cohen
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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)
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 price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
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
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
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