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May you find great value in these Parachutes quotes and sayings.
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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 life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- 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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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