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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey 
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
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 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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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 beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
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
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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