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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
by Naguib Mahfouz

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

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You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

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

Everything you say and do,
is a reflection of the inner you.
- Anonymous

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung

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

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

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

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie