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May you find great value in these quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Free-Will
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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