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Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
Related topics: Inspirational Love
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
- Rumi
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
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
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
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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