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Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- Mark Twain
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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 should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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