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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
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It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
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Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
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Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
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Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- 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
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
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Life is lived in the waiting.
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Life must be lived as play.
- Plato
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- 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
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life is serious? Why?
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Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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