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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Related topics: Wisdom Perspective Adventure Vision
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
I take the helm on my life voyage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final lesson a writer learns is that
everything can nourish the writer.
The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,
a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
There is no logical way to the discovery
of these elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
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
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
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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 one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- 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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
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
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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