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It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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)
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
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