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We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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
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)
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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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
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
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
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
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