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The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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 that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- 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
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