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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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)
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
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
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
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
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
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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