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Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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 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
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
"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
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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