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Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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 essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
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
"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
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 now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
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
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
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
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
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
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