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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- 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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
May You Always Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
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