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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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