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It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
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I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
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