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Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- 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
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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