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A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
The final lesson a writer learns is that
everything can nourish the writer.
The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,
a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
- Anais Nin
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
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 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
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
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