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By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
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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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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 function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
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
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- 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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
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
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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