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Wisdom Quotes

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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

 

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- 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

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

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

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


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