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We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson 
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
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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)
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
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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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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
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No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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