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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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 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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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 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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
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."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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