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I hope you find these Grace Hansen Quotes inspiring and motivational.
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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 opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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 good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
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
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
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
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
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
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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