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The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
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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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
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 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
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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It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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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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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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
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
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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 work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
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
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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