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If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
Related topics: Motivational
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
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) 
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
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