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May you find great value in these Dialogue 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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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 reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 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
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
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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