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The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
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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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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