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May you find great value in these quotes by John A. Shedd.
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I alone am the Master of my ship of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation,
a ship going to discover the New World.
And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
- John Lennon
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
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)
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- 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
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
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 nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
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