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Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
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)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
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
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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