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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Anne Wilson Schaef.
Differences challenge assumptions.
- Anne Wilson Schaef
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 
All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
- Swami Vivekananda
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
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
- M. Scott Peck
Together we must learn how to compose differences,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- 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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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