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May you find great value in these quotes by Conrad Burns.
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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