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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu 
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
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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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
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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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)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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.
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
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
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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