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
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Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Success is never so interesting as struggle
- Willa Cather
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
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
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- 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
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
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
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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 source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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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