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To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Golda Meir
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln 
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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
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
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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 world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
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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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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