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Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life ...
1. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
2. Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you are one with the earth, with the water,
with the fire, with the air that you breathe, with all living things,
and that all of these are one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Life is about more than today, and more than yourself.
What will your legacy be?
What will your great-grandchildren be told about you?
Creating a legacy does not have to be a burden,
it can be your joy and can create
your satisfaction with living each day.
What kind of world do you want to leave your great-grandchildren?
What can you do today to help create that world?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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