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Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius 
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
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Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
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
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
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 be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- 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
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
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
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
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)
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path to love ... is our spiritual destiny.
- Deepak Chopra
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
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