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Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
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
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
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
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
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
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 wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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