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May you find great value in these Everyday quotes and sayings.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter
everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe
that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton
The clearest way to show what the rule of law
means to us in everyday life
is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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)
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- 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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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