Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
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)
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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