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We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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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
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
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Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
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