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Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
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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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
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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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
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
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
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)
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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