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There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
I am not the Catholic candidate for President.
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President,
who happens also to be a Catholic.
- John F. Kennedy
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
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
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
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
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
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)
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
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