The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
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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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
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
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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.
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- 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
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