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May you find great value in these Featherbed quotes and sayings.
We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- 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
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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