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May you find great value in these quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
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
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
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- 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
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
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
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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