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I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.
I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.
I understand that my way is not the only way -
that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others,
and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness
from the ideas and traditions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
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
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life change comes about in two complementary ways -
the "aha" moment, which occurs in a flash of insight;
and the conscious redesigning of habitual behaviors,
which is a lifelong project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you open up to the ultimate,
immediately it pours into you.
You are no longer an ordinary human being -
you have transcended.
Your insight has become the
insight of the whole existence.
Now you are no longer separate -
you have found your roots.
- Osho
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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