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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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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.

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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

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

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

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

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

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

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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