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May you find great value in these quotes by Abdul-Baha.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
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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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
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
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
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
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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