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We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
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Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
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
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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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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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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 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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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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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