Summation:

1. Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you.

2. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

3. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”  - Ernest Hemingway

4. Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy.

5. “Never argue with a stupid person, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” - Mark Twain

6. Only pack what you can carry yourself.

7. Remember you’ll always regret what you didn’t do rather than what you did.

8. “You’d worry less about what people think about you if you knew how seldom they do.” - David Foster Wallace

9. If you blame it on someone else, don’t expect it to get better.

10. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, but there will always be someone who hates peaches.” - Dita von Teese

11. If the grass is greener on the other side, there’s probably more manure there.

12. Don’t give up what you want most for what you want now.

13. With regards to the opposite sex: If you look hungry, you’ll starve.

14. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” - Isaac Asimov

15. Strive to be the man you want your daughter to marry.

16. “Remember only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” - Stephen King

17. Never forget your car keys will change your car from one ton of inert metal into one of the most deadly killing machines that has been invented.

18. Wait 24 hours before getting mad and reacting about anything. If it doesn’t bother you in 24 hours time, it probably isn’t important enough to get mad over.

19. Never make someone a priority who only makes you an option.

20. Try not to take anything personally. No one thinks about you as much as you do.

21. “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” - Sirius Black

22. Figure out what you love to do, and then figure out how to get someone to pay you to do it.

23. If you treat a woman like a queen, and she treats you like a jester, your princess is in another castle.

24. Whenever something happens that makes you sad, ask yourself whether you’d still care about it when you’re ninety.

25. Be persistent. When knowledge and ability aren’t enough, be persistent.

26. “Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. It’s all up to you. So get up off your keister, get out of here, and go start doin’ the work. Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.” - Bob Kelso

27. Smart girls like to hear they’re pretty, pretty girls like to hear that they’re smart.

28. Happiness is a choice and everything else is a matter of perspective.

Impermanence

"Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary." 

— Robert Monroe

“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.” 

- Danielle Orner

“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.” 

- Philip Arnold

“It Doesn’t Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going.”

- Brian Tracy

“The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.” 

- Robin Sharma

"Just take the High Road. It's better."

"Success is survival."

- Leonard Cohen

"There is no greater poverty than being unwanted, uncared for, and unloved."

"'NO' is a complete sentence."

- Dr. Judith Orloff

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” 

~ Frank Crane

"I know that I know nothing."

- Socrates

"We all ruin the world a little."

"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone."

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"I hear and I forget.  

I see and I remember.  

I do and I understand." 

- Confucius

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” 

– Anthony J. D’Angelo

“We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our career. Who we are is Divine Love and that is Infinite.” 

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"You don’t have to rebuild a relationship with everyone you have forgiven."

"Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever; you just have to live.”

 ~ Natalie Babitt

"Hate corrodes the container it's carried in."

"Everything must change, nothing stays the same."

“Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.”

- Ram Dass

"Maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of hurting them back."

“Every moment of your life is a second chance.” 

~ Rick Price

"When you find no solution to a problem, it’s probably not a problem to be solved, but a truth to be accepted."

"Life is about becoming more, not getting more."

“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.” 


― Oswald Chambers

“Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? 

Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"Sometimes silence is golden, not everything needs a response that’s what am learning. It’s not worth your peace."

Wise words.

Thumper said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all."  

“But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

“A dog is not a thing. A thing is replaceable. A dog is not. A thing is disposable. A dog is not. A thing doesn’t have a heart. A dog’s heart is bigger than any “thing” you can ever own.” 

― Elizabeth Parker, Paw Prints in the Sand

"Always speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.”

 ~ Unknown

“Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.” 

~Alexandra Stoddard 

"Wherever you travel, wherever you roam - there you are."

“Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and it is secondary. Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."  

- Lao Tzu

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." 

- George Washington

“Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” 

~Unknown 

"When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, 

the only thing that's going to matter is

'What is the quality of our love?'"

- Richard Bach

"Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his Being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul; and, in that he is the maker of his character, the builder of his destiny."

- As A Man Thinketh

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“So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.”

- Albert Einstein

"Man is made or unmade by himself - in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength.

By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection - by abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the heart."

- As a Man Thinketh

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain ability to function.” 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.” 

~ Malcolm Gladwell

"Losing prepares you for success."

NATURE

"No tree has branches foolish enough to fight among themselves."

"We are all humans, we’re all one...why can’t we just all see that?"

- Lauren Liess

"Problems are the biggest addiction in humanity."

“Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”

 ~ Vironika Tugaleva

"Jesus said 'turn the other cheek if you are attacked.'  The original meaning should be understood ~ you should turn the other cheek because you realize that the attacker only attacks himself." 

- Seth

"Some things won't happen until other things die."

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” 

- Albert Einstein

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” 

~ Wayne Dyer

"What you think with emotion is what you will get."

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

- Alice Walker

Everything is a lesson.

"Burnout is a long term exhaustion that sets in when we have tried to change who we are for long periods of our life. Constantly being vigilant to please others can wear us out to the point of being disabled."

"Accept that you will never be perfect, life will always have challenges, and other people will sometimes disappoint you. Acceptance is the first step toward peace."

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.” 

- Jodi Picoult

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.” 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Our ability to accept truth, to live by it, governs our progress in the spirit, and it determines the degree of light we possess. Nobody forces light and truth upon us, and nobody takes it away unless we let them." 

- RaNelle Wallace

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." 

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.” 

- Alister Hardy

"Happiness is love of something outside of self. It may never be obtained, may never be known by loving only things within self or self's own domain." 


- Edgar Cayce

"There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.” 

~Michael Singer

"It does not require many words to speak the truth." 

- Chief Joseph

"Today’s a good day to start walking in the opposite direction of anything or anyone that causes you more sorrow than joy."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."  

- John F. Kennedy

"Empathy’s the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.” 

~ Brené Brown

"What you ignore you empower."

“...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.” 

- Katherine Hannigan

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

- Alan Watts

"Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

You are the company you keep!

"We are in a battle for the soul of this country. Our silence is complicity."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” 
― Helen Keller

"Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

- Anne of Green Gables

"There is no way to peace, because peace is the way. What one wins by force can only be kept by force."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” 

-Mahatma Gandhi

"By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another … has even less worth than if he were a mere thing … makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself." 

- Immanuel Kant

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“People who go along a treasonous path do not know they are on a treasonous path until it is too late.”

"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” 

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress, depression, and anxiety are caused when we are living to please others.” 

- Paulo Coehlo

Awakening

"It all falls into place in the moment of surrender, that's when freedom and peace comes and takes over your whole being.” 

- Maria Erving

Life

" ... perhaps we're being given the chance to test ourselves and grow. A diamond is not made without pressure."

“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” 

- Mark Twain