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May you find great value in these quotes by Carl Lewis.
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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)
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
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
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,
time stops completely,
disappears,
leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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