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Inspirational Sayings

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

It's foggy and it's gray - let's play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

Excellence is not a destination to be arrived at,
but a path of continual attention and improvement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

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

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney Harris

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley

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)

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We were given:
Two hands to hold.
To legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hoist the sails of CHOICE
to harness the winds of JOY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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