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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott 
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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)
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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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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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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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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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
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
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
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Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
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
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