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May you find great value in these Philanthropist quotes and sayings.
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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)
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
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
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
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 eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- 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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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