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Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
- Patrick Henry Hughes
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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)
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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.
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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 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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- 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
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
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