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One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
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
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
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
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King
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
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Question every assumption and expectation.
- 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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
"I" is a non-stop storyteller, spinning tales
of the past, the present and the future -
constantly editing, interpreting
and directing this inner movie.
- Josh Baran
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
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