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Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
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
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
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 death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
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
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