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Know that anger is always fear and frustration.
What if we could lean back into the arms of Spirit
and trust the future?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Spiritual
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
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
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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