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By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
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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 
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
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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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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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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
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
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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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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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
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
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
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 mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
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