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We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- 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
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
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
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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