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Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- 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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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