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May you find great value in these Slaying quotes and sayings.
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not very heroic to slay dragons.
Dragons are generally very peaceful and well behaved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- 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
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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