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No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation,
with a right, by the will of its majority,
to bind themselves, but none to
bind the succeeding generation,
more than the inhabitants of another country.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,
based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy
to bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
- Henry Van Dyke
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
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
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 understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- 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
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- 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
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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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