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May you find great value in these Catholics quotes and sayings.
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- 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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
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
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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