Quotes by Marie B. Ray

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

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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.

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

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

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

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

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

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

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

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

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

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

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

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

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

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie