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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- 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
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
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