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Life / Living —————————————————————————————————————-
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Ken Hudgins
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg
Skin is a covering for our immortality.
Ever Garrison
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
Plato
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Tennyson
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
Confucius
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
The obstacle is the path.
Zen Proverb
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
Happiness / Ideals —————————————————————————————————–
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
Our ideals resemble the stars, no one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.
Carl Schurz
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Seeking is not always the way to find.
Augustus William Hare
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
Mignon McLaughlin
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge / Truth —————————————————————————————————–
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus Lescynski
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Aristotle
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
Lee Segall
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
Polish Proberb
There's more to the truth than just the facts.
Author Unknown
Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
Mind —————————————————————————————————————————
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Unknown Author
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
Bill Moyers
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Author Unknown
Attitude ———————————————————————————————————————-
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
To know the height of a mountain, one must climb it.
Augustus William Hare
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire
You will never achieve what you never begin.
Andre Gide
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Unknown Author
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost.
Herb Cohen
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Kenneth Kaunda
Win by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Other ————————————————————————————————————————–
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
John Stuart Mill
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand
Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.
Stanley Arnold
A stumble may prevent a fall.
English Proverb
A thousand men can't undress a naked man.
Greek Proverb
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Buddha
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
Baba Ram Dass
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Zen Proverb
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
James Matthew Barrie
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Buddha
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