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There is only one thing about which I am certain,
by W. Somerset Maugham

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Related topics: Cynical Wisdom

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

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

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

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

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

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

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

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

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

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 sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

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