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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We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray 
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
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
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
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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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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