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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Thistle.
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower
wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
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
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- 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
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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
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
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
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
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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 possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
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
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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