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It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man who suffers before it is necessary,
suffers more than is necessary.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- 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
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- 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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- 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
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- 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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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