Selves Quotes

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Courage

We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale

Going with the flow doesn't mean that we don't know where we're going;
it means that we are open to multiple ways of getting there.
Going with the flow means that we are aware of an energy
that is larger than our small selves,
and we are open to working with it, not against it.
- Madisyn Taylor

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

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

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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

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

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

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.

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

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

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.
- 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

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

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

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

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

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

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

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

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

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

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

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

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

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

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- 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

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

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

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

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

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

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

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

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

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

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

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

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

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

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