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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- 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
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- 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
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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)
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- 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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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