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Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
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Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
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
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
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."
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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.
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
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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 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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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