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We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
by Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

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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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

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

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

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

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

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

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 heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

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

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

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