Top 100 Not Things Quotes
#1. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?
Oscar Wilde
#2. The best things in life are not things, but they are our beautiful loving thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#4. Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
Steven Sinofsky
#5. More often than not, things and people are as they appear.
Malcolm Forbes
#6. Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
Damian Conway
#7. My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.
John The Apostle
#8. Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Octavio Paz
#9. Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.
Jean Chatzky
#10. Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.
Silver RavenWolf
#11. Children are not things to be molded, But are people to be unfolded. - Jess Lair The Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods from Birth to Six Months
Anonymous
#12. Those words tasted bitter.
But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words were not things you could control. Not always.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#13. He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.
Lee Child
#14. Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective.
Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more.
Not that hard is it?
Donald L. Hicks
#15. Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
Gary Kowalski
#16. Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
Ajahn Chah
#17. Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.
Chuck D
#18. Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.
Maria Montessori
#20. We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.
Robert Lanza
#21. We need to be on guard against greed ... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.
Billy Graham
#22. Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Angela Carter
#23. I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things.
Morrissey
#24. Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#25. Not selfish things, not things for herself; who could give to unwanted children love, care, a home. All these things she could buy for them, but not their love for her. Then
Agatha Christie
#26. A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.
Alexander MacLaren
#27. The things you should value most in this life are NOT things.
Tanya Masse
#28. He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.
Susan Meissner
#29. He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning.
Silvana De Mari
#30. You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.
Antonio Damasio
#31. I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.
Chuck Palahniuk
#32. Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
Johann Georg Hamann
#33. I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat - not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me.
I'd found that to be a significant difference.
Lisa Shearin
#35. Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.
Michel Foucault
#36. Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#37. What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things
Epictetus
#38. It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
Epictetus
#39. I'm trying to show you how much I care, that your dreams mean something to me! They're not things to be swept under the rug or given lip service. They fucking matter, Libby. You matter.
Kristen Callihan
#40. People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
Rajneesh
#41. The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect.
Venkat Desireddy
#42. Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
Haruki Murakami
#43. My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John
#45. Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Pliny The Elder
#46. Collect memories, not things.
Fill-up dreams, not pockets.
Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.
Akash Lakhotia
#47. So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
Wangari Maathai
#49. Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
Tim Ferriss
#50. Compliments are not things I know how to process.
Tahereh Mafi
#51. I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#52. For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels ... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.
Dorothy Parker
#53. Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
Octavio Paz
#54. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
William Penn
#55. The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
Henri Poincare
#56. Presents are not "things" but a means for conveying someone's feelings. When viewed from this perspective, you don't need to feel guilty for parting with a gift. Just thank it for the joy it gave you when you first received it.
Marie Kondo
#57. Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
Rick Warren
#58. Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.
Simon Critchley
#59. The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
Carla Hall
#60. It is well known that in an infinite universe everything that can be imagined must exist somewhere, and since many of them are not things that ought to exist in a well-ordered space-time frame they get shoved into a side dimension. This
Terry Pratchett
#61. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.
Silvia Corradin
#62. I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.
Susan Pogorzelski
#63. My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#64. God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
Max Lucado
#65. Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relationships we cherish.
John Paul Warren
#67. Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.
Alan Watts
#68. It is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,
Aristotle.
#69. Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life.
Sadhguru
#70. I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do - like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.
Rick Riordan
#71. Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
Sharon Salzberg
#73. It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms.
Stefan Emunds
#75. I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.
George Frederic Watts
#76. I'm going to repeat this: I buy experiences and not things. I don't like to buy my kids' gifts. But I'll take them places and won't hold back. They will lose and forget the "things" in the long run. But they will never forget the experiences.
James Altucher
#77. It's oppressive ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to do this. They seem to be about things that are fun, not things you have to spend lots of hours on and then fail at.
Debora Spar
#78. Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.
Gary L. Francione
#79. No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
Michael Grant
#80. If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred Korzybski
#81. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
#82. What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Epictetus
#83. The greatest things in life are not things.
Rick Warren
#85. Gifts are not things that you earn or deserve they are a way for the giver to show their appreciation for you and Daren, you are a part of my family
Chelsea Fine
#86. God, I don't know what lies ahead or what will happen next. But you're going to be there, aren't you? Even when the world tricks me into thinking you're not. Things are going to be different. *I'm* going to be different. And I'm going to get it right this time.
Jenny B. Jones
#87. The things that matter most are not things.
Art Buchwald
#88. Worry less, enjoy more, because more often than not, things will work out anyway.
Jennifer O'Neill
#89. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that had happened. Things that might
Michael Grant
#90. we were buying things we actually loved, not things to show off,
Kevin Kwan
#91. What a country calls its vital ... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil
#93. She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.
Frances Hardinge
#94. Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
Epictetus
#95. I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
Sayed Badreya
#96. Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
Peter Singer
#97. When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace.
Tanya Masse
#98. I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
Sun Myung Moon
#99. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
Dean Koontz
#100. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.
Lisa Hammond
