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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Related topics: Wisdom
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha 
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
My only reason for not experiencing bliss at this very moment
is thinking about what I don't have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
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
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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