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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
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Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather strength from life's storms.
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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