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Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- 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
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
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
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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 eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
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
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 may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things do not change; we change.
- 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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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