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Welcome to these Breakdowns Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs
is the whole function of a master.
- Osho
Related topics: Wisdom
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
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
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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