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If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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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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)
"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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
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
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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