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We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott 
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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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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
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
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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."
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
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 do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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 great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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 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
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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