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It is not what we choose that is important;
it is the reason we choose it.
- Carolyn Myss
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln 
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
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- 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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."
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
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)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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