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
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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 
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu 
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu 
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary 
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau 
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 
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore 
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott 
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd 
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)
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 bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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