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May you find great value in these Binding quotes and sayings.
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,
based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy
to bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
- Henry Van Dyke
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation,
with a right, by the will of its majority,
to bind themselves, but none to
bind the succeeding generation,
more than the inhabitants of another country.
- Thomas Jefferson
With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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 bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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 ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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