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We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
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.
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
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
For time and the world do not stand still.
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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