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Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.
In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.
Then the next week they both get out and play again.
Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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"I love you just the way you are."
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but lust seldom leads to friendship.
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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?
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Don't project your past onto my future.
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Know that love has no limits.
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Feeling overwhelmed by apparent demands on our time
is like going to a restaurant,
ordering everything on the menu,
and complaining about indigestion.
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Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
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Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
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Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
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The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
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Question every assumption and expectation.
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Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
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Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
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The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
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Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
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Know that you are never alone.
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Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
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Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
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Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
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When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
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Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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Love Without Limits.
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Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
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We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
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It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
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they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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Home is where we feel comfortable.
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Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
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Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
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Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
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Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
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Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
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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."
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Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
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are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
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Life is lived in the waiting.
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Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Choose love - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
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It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Life is serious? Why?
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Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
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Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
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Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
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Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
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We all have our thorns - and blooms.
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Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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