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May you find great value in these quotes by Muhammad Ali.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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 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
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
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
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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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 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
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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