Samuel Butler Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Life Sayings
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- 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
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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
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
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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