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May you find great value in these Optimistic quotes and sayings.
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
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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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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
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 cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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