He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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 supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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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)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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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
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
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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I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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 ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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 possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
An evil deed is not redeemed
by an evil deed in retaliation.
- Coretta Scott King (widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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