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May you find great value in these quotes by Isocrates.
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
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Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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 bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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
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
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- 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
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
A reflection of life is not life.
- 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
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
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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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
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
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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