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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
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
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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 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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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
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
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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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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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)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
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