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May you find great value in these quotes by Peter McWilliams.
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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 cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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