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May you find great value in these Thistle quotes and sayings.
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 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
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
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
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
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
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
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- 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
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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