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Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank You,
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I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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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 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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A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
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The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
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Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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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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Choose love - always.
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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.
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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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our unhappiness is triggered by either
having less than yesterday,
or having less than our neighbor.
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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
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
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Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- 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
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
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
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Life is serious? Why?
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Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- 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
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
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Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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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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Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
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The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
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True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
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Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
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Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- 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.
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The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exotic or ordinary, glamorous or plain,
exciting or boring - it's all in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
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We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
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The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
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Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
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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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"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
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- 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
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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