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May you find great value in these quotes by Colette.
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
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If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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)
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- 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
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
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