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

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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius PHOTO

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

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

 

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

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 PHOTO

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale PHOTO

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

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

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

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

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

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

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

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

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

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

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


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