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If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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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
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
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 is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
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
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- 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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For time and the world do not stand still.
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
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
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Men 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
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- 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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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