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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Not Perfect.
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
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Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions.
- Richard Carlson
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
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 may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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