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I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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)
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- 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
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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