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It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) 
Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
The world's mental.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Fasten your safety belts, clench your buttocks!
It's going be a bumpy ride!
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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
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
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
"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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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)
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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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Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
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.
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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