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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
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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
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
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- 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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- 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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
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 living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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