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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
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The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
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
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be content with what you have,
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
- Lao Tzu
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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