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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- 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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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 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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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 bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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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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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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