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Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- 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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- 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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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
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
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's true 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 begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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