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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
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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