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It is only in adventure that some people
by Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

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 only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

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

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

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

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

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

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

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

Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

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

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

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

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

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

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie