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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
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
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 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 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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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)
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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'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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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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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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 will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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