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Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln 
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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)
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
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
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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