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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)

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Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning

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

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

I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing
but in the midst of living.
- Anais Nin

I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Dance with a Light Heart.
I 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

The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump

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

We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

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

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

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

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

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie