Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find great value in these Vacation quotes and sayings.
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Related topics: Motivational
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."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- 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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Thank you for visiting: Wise Quotes about Vacation.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.