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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Onion.
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
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
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- The Buddha
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Completion:
It is time for the project to be over.
You submitted the proposal, you painted your house,
you passed-in the term paper.
Whatever praise or criticism you received,
it is now time to move on to your next project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work out your own salvation.
Do not depend on others.
- The Buddha
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Holding-on does not have to be a desperate
teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
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