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Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- 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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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