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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Lives.
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
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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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
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
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can create miracles in your own life,
and in the lives of those around you -
because you are a miracle,
and you are connected to the source of all miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We each have a sixth sense that is
attuned to the oneness dimension in life,
providing a means for us to guide our lives
in accord with our ideas.
- Henry Reed
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- 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
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
- John F. Kennedy
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
However carefully we plan our future,
we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.
While it is important to our happiness
that we have an intent for our lives,
it is equally crucial to accept in advance
that we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -
and that is good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
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 man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
Lives based on having are less free
than lives based on doing or being.
- E.Y. Harburg
A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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