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Abdul-Baha Quotes and Sayings
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If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie