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Whenever the World Frowns, I Smile Back.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
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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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If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
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Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
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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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I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
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Give somebody a gold star - Today.
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We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
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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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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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Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
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Know that you are never alone.
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We are never afraid of what is happening in this instant -
It is what MIGHT happen next that frightens us.
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Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- 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.
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The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
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It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
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If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
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Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
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Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
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Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
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The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
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I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
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Don't project your past onto my future.
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Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- 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
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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The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
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The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
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Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
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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
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
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The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
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Home is where we feel comfortable.
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Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
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We all have our thorns - and blooms.
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
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NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
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The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
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A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
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Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
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Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
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Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
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Know that you are loved.
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Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- 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
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
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Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- 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 all in the perspective we take on it.
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Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
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The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- 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
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
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Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
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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
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