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It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
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
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You do not need anyone's permission to be your 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
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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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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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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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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
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's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
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
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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