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May you find great value in these Immovable quotes and sayings.
Overwhelm is not a pleasant condition.
The to-do list overflows,
the deadlines appear imminent and immovable.
There are too many demands upon too little of your time.
Does this sound familiar?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- 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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
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