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Every day is Christmas when you are open to receiving love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
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I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
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A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
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Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
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True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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Question every assumption and expectation.
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Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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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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A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
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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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For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
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None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
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Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
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Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
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Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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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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You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
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Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- 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
We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
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Know that you are loved.
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Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
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The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
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Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
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To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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"You always..." and "you never..." are code phrases for
"you don't meet my expectations,
so I am declaring you inadequate and unacceptable."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
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You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- 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
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
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- 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
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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