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The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions,
the mobility and flow of risk capital...
the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital,
and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
- John F. Kennedy
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
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
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way:
on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
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
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge,
it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live,
the real way to know, the real way to be.
- Osho
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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