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Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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