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May you find great value in these quotes by Anne Wilson Schaef.
Differences challenge assumptions.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
- Swami Vivekananda
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree
is connected with that of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
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)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
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
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
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