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An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
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To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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 essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
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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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
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
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
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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Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
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 about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
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