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May these quotes about Daintily inspire and motivate you.
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
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
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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 world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
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