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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Featherbed.
We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
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
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
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
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
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Don't worry when you are not recognized,
but strive to be worthy of recognition.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
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
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
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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