It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
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Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
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
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
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