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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
- Anais Nin
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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)
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- 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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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