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Please enjoy these St. Francis De Sales quotes from my collection of quotes about life.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
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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
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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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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 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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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 is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
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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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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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
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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