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May you find great value in these quotes by Anna Cummins.
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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)
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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 world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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 anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
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