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Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

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I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiving others is a gift to yourself,
given not because the other deserves pardon,
but because you deserve the serenity and joy
that comes from releasing resentment and anger,
and from embracing universal forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa

 

The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Within my mind, the sun always shines,
and the sky is always blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane

The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The Buddha

To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings

Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that a flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay

We have a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day.
- Charles Swindoll

Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie

We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter

Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is able who thinks he is able.
- The Buddha

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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