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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
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 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
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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)
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- 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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
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
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
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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