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The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Spiritual Unity

I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
- Friedrich Halm

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)

Beats Quotes and Sayings

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

Beaten Quotes and Sayings

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln

Beating Quotes and Sayings

Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller

Opponent Quotes and Sayings

Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life Quotes and Sayings

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

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

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho

Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou

Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

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

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

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump

Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie