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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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 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
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
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
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)
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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
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
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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