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May these quotes about Nirvana inspire and motivate you.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
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
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 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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