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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- 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
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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