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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
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 supposed to be fair.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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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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)
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
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
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
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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 cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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