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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 
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
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Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- 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
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
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
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- 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
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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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
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
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 book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
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