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If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu 
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
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
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 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
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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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
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No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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