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No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- 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
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
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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