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Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- 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
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are loved.
- 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
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- 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
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- 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
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our unhappiness is triggered by either
having less than yesterday,
or having less than our neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We CHOOSE our actions, thoughts, and feelings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything that costs you more hours of effort or worry
than it brings you hours of enjoyment
is a candidate for downsizing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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