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It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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