The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
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
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
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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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