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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
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
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 true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
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