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Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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 supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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
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 do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
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
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- 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
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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
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