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It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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- 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
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
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
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
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
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
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
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
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
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
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
My only reason for not experiencing bliss at this very moment
is thinking about what I don't have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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