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Welcome to these Dreadful Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming
a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My only fear is that I may live too long.
This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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 essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
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
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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