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Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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