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
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
The rich are not born skeptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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