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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 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 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 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
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 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
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
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- 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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- 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
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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