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Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott 
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
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
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
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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"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
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
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
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
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Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
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.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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