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The unpredictable and irregular happenings
of life's cycles are an inherent part of their nature.
There are droughts and heat waves, injuries occur.
The lion eats the zebra -
one is nourished, one dies - neither failed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being,
and remain conscious - and you are meditating.
And then meditation is not separate from life.
- Osho
Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness.
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.
- Osho
The Sweetest Strawberry:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger.
He fled, the tiger after him.
Coming to a precipice,
he caught hold of the root of a wild vine
and swung himself over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above.
Trembling, the man looked down to where,
far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him.
Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black,
little by little started to gnaw away the vine.
The man then saw a luscious strawberry near him.
Grasping the vine with one hand,
he plucked the strawberry with the other.
How sweet it tasted.
- Zen Koan
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling,
arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Christmas ... is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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