I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful
than Thor with his hammer.
The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Future generations are not going to ask us
what political party were you in.
They are going to ask what did you do about it,
when you knew the glaciers were melting.
- Martin Sheen
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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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
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
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.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
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
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
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
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
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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 aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
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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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