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May you find great value in these Human Nature quotes and sayings.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
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
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
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 takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way:
on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
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