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The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 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
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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
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
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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