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It is not what we choose that is important;
it is the reason we choose it.
- Carolyn Myss
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 
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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 measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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