Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.
Endings: what must precede new beginnings.
Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.
Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -
as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourish
in the decay of last year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
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
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
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'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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- 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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
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
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
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
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
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
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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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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