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A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope
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When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro 
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- 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
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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
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
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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