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Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
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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 
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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)
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
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
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
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 will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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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.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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