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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Headstrong.
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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