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May you find great value in these Plot quotes and sayings.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- Anais Nin
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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