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Words of the Wise

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“From what we get we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.”

-Arthur Ashe

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

-Rose Kennedy

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.”

-Woody Allen

“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

-J. K. Rowling

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove something else is wrong.”

-Sydney J. Harris

“Our greatest strength, and our greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.”

-Anthony Walton

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

-Aldous Huxley

“Do what you want to do…

But want to do what you are doing.

Be what you want to be…

But want to be what you are.”

-Unknown

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

-Gilda Radner

“Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you. Shout aloud, ‘I am glad to be what I am.’ Thanks goodness I’m not a ham or a clam or a dusty old bottle of gooseberry jam! I am what I am. What a great thing to be…If I saw so myself, HAPPY – EVERYDAY – ME!!”

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is. ~“Dick” Ricky Rittmaster

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm. ~Cicero

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? ~Michel De Saint-Pierre

People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ~Al Lee

Man’s troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind. ~Buddha

Day by day in every way I am getting better and better. ~Emile Coué

I’m an old man and I’ve had many troubles, most of which never happened. ~Mark Twain

Everything has its beauty but not everyone see it. ~Confucius

Rule 1: Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Rule 2: It’s all small stuff.

Rule 3: If you can’t fight or flee, then flow.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. ~Grenville Kleiser

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~John Milton

It’s not what you think you are – but what you think, you are. ~Author Unknown

If you don’t mind, it don’t matter ~Author Unknown

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