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Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is always safety in valor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
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
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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