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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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 
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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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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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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
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
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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