The trick is not how much pain you feel -
by Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Sayings by Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong 
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Trick Sayings
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Not Sayings
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
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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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
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
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
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
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
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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