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If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
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 opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- 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
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
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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
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
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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