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May these quotes about Epicurus inspire and motivate you.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
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.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
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
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
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You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
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This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
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There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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 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
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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.
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Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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