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May you find great value in these Pacifists quotes and sayings.
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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 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
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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
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
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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