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Overwhelm is not a pleasant condition.
The to-do list overflows,
the deadlines appear imminent and immovable.
There are too many demands upon too little of your time.
Does this sound familiar?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- 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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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