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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Swami Vivekananda.
All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
- Swami Vivekananda
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If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Differences challenge assumptions.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
If we cannot now end our differences,
at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree
is connected with that of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
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
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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