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May you find great value in these Contradictory quotes and sayings.
We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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)
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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 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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
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