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May you find great value in these Impasse quotes and sayings.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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)
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- 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
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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