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My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin

It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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 only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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 only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

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

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

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

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

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

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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 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

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

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

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

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

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

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

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

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

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

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

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

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

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