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If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
by Abdul-Baha

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

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