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Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
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
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- 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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our stories are the window to our emotions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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