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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
History does not long entrust the care of freedom
to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
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
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
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
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 greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
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
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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