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Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Related topics: Wisdom Criticism Critical Blame
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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