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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


 

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

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

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

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

All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own
in the midst of abundance.
- The Buddha

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

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

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor

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

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up    
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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