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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- 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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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 are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
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