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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone, you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- 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 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
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
...
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.
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- 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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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