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“You don't have to rush to do anything.”
“You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.”
“You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from”
“You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.”
Source: Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation
“You don't have to say everything to say something.”
“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
“You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.”
“You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.”
“You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.”
“You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.”
Source: Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.”
“You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.”
“You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.”
Source: Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back
“You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.”
“You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.”
“You don't have to show people how successful you are.”
“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”
“You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.”
“You don't have to solve every problem at once.”
“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
“You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.”
“You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.”
“You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that.”
“You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.”
“You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.”
“You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.”
“You don't have to stay anywhere forever.”
Source: The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists
“You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.”
“You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”
“You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.”
“You don't have to stop everything to get organized, you just have to start.”
Source: Simple Steps to Organizing Everything
“You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.”
“You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.”
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”
“You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.”
“You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.”
“You don't have to take any drugs to experience the Juggalo world. That's where the magic comes in. Because it's fresh and magical to the people who enjoy it and the people who love it all by itself without any substances.”
“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”
“You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.”
“You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.”
“You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.”
Source: Love the One You're With
“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”
“You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember.”
“You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.”
“You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.”
“You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?”
“You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.”