The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
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We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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
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
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
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
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
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
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
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.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
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
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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