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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
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Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Every man supposes himself
not to be fully understood or appreciated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- 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
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
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
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- 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
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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