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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch

I ride my blue polka-dot horse through the byways of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous

We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
- Carl Jung

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

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

I have never met an aggressive person
who wasn't a fearful person.
- John Bradshaw

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

It is a truth universally acknowledged that
when one part of your life starts going okay,
another falls spectacularly to pieces.
- the movie Bridget Jones Diary

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

The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie