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Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Question every assumption and expectation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we say, do, think, and feel
is a product of our personal history
and the collective history of humankind.
Our name for these histories is "prejudice."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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