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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

What we think, we become.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world.

- The Buddha

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,

instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

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The life of inner peace,

being harmonious and without stress,

is the easiest type of existence.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Don't Take Anything Personally.

Nothing others do is because of you.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The mind is not a vessel to be filled

but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

He who knows others is wise.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

- Lao Tzu

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

This above all, to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Main Thing is to Keep

The Main Thing The Main Thing.

- Stephen Covey

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Everything has beauty,

but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

Footprints in the sands of time...

Where have you been?

Where are you going?

Why are you going there?

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace

for those with eyes to see beyond.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you aren't in the moment,

you are either looking forward to uncertainty,

or back to pain and regret.

- Jim Carrey

Happiness walks on busy feet.

- Kitte Turmell

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a succession of lessons

which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu

A well-developed sense of humor

is the pole that adds balance to your steps,

as you walk the tightrope of life.

- William Arthur Ward

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"

but you do have the power to make life joyful.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,

and it is the one flesh of all humankind.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.

We give our own meaning to time as to life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Change what you see,

by changing how you see.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is really simple,

but we insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius

Life is a reflection of intent.

Love reflects love.

Hate reflects hate.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who is contented is rich.

- 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

Bringing a childlike wonder

and a beginner's mind to life

maximizes both success and joy.

- 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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.

No one can eliminate prejudices -

just recognize them.

- Edward R. Murrow

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

- Lao Tzu

Silence is a source of great strength.

- Lao Tzu

People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good traveler has no fixed plans,

and is not intent on arriving.

- Lao Tzu

Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,

"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

We don't see things as they are,

we see things as we are.

- Anais Nin

What's done is done.

- William Shakespeare

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,

of most of the people you see every day,

is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

- Theodore H. White

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is richest who is content with the least,

for content is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.

- Yiddish Proverb

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;

Not to know yet to think that one knows

will lead to difficulty.

- Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still,

the whole universe surrenders.

- Lao Tzu

Where there's a will, there's a way.

- old English proverb

Talent is God-given; be humble.

Fame is man-given; be thankful.

Conceit is self-given; be careful.

- John Wooden

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

the courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

The River of Life has no meaning,

no good, no bad, no better, no worse,

no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.

The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.

The River of Life just IS.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat those who are good with goodness,

and also treat those who are not good with goodness.

Thus goodness is attained.

Be honest to those who are honest,

and be also honest to those who are not honest.

Thus honesty is attained.

- Lao Tzu

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.

I See the events, feel the emotions,

and recognize the difference.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,

or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.

It is what you think about.

- Dale Carnegie

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

Success is getting what you want;

happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

You never really understand a person

until you consider things from his point of view.

- Harper Lee

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie