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May you find great value in these Unevenly quotes and sayings.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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