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We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Related topics: Wisdom
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi 
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
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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