Only those who can leave behind everything they
by William S. Burroughs

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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 only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

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

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

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

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- 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

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

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

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

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

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

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

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