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Welcome to these Illiterate Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
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
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
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
"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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor
You must not under any pretense allow
your mind to dwell on any thought
that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
- Emmet Fox
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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