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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Related topics: Wisdom
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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 or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
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.
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
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
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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