Favorite Sayings to Live By (4)
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
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