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Welcome to these Tomb Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
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All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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 afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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