
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
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
- Anonymous
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Prayer is the key of the morning
and the bolt of the evening.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For me, one of the greatest things about living in the United States
is that we have a national holiday - Thanksgiving Day -
dedicated to honoring gratitude.
Having gratitude is one of the keys to a happy life.
Let every day be a day of profound thanksgiving.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Physical fitness is not only one of
the most important keys to a healthy body,
it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
I practice keen awareness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
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
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
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
I have to really like you to share my food with you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
The journey between what you once were
and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of Life really takes place.
- Barbara De Angelis
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess,
we act and think in vain,
and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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