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Welcome to these Philanthropy Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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 am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
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
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
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
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
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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