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I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
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It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent
will not pass until there is
an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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 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 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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 things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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