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Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling,
in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome
which comes out of allowing things to be as they are
without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them,
in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others:
or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- 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
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
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