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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- 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
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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