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It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
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
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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