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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Conformity.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not going to change the way I look
or the way I feel to conform to anything.
I've always been a freak.
So I've been a freak all my life
and I have to live with that, you know.
I'm one of those people.
- John Lennon
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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