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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
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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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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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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)
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
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
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
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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 ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
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