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May you find great value in these Note quotes and sayings.
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Related topics: Wisdom
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
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
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
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