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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
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You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
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
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my 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
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
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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