It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- 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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- 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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
To be or not to be is not
a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be.
- Golda Meir
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride comes in two flavors -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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