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I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities,
and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Affirmations Positive Inspirational Values Choice Possibility Assumption Expectation
I CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration:
I renounce all assumptions and expectations,
and declare that I will thoughtfully consider
all possibilities and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart -
I renounce all assumptions and expectations,
and I declare that I will thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I will CHOOSE with courage, awareness,
consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor True Self
Forgive with Compassion
Receive ALL of life with Thanksgiving
CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration
Dream with Powerful Vision
Act with Bold Courage
Dance with a Light Heart
Relax in the Arms of Spirit
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
I grant myself the Honor of being ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end,
contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.
- Theodore H. White
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Today is my day to honor my being,
release each and every struggle,
gather strength from life's storms,
relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar,
and the lightnings blaze around us
it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.
- Luther Martin
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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