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In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
There is an orderliness in the universe,
there is an unalterable law governing everything
and every being that exists or lives.
It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern
the conduct of living beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden
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
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
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)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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
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
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
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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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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
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
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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
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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