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Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
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People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
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The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather strength from life's storms.
- 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
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
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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 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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- 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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
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
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- 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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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