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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
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A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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)
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
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.
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
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
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
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Our journey into consciousness of wealth
begins with the realization that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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