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Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

 

The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire

Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- 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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
- Osho

The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain


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