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We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You do not need anyone's permission to be your 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 bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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 supposed to be fair.
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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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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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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 essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- 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)
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
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