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Welcome to these Contradicts Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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)
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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 beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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