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May you find great value in these Prospective quotes and sayings.
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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 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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
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
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 our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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