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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Edmund Burke.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
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
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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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
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
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
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
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
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
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
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow...
but only empties today of its strength.
- C. H. Spurgeon
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
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
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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