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Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
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Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
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
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
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- 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
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- 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 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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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