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It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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 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
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
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
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- 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
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
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
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- 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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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