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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
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If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's interest in a single bluebird
is worth more than a complete but dry list
of the fauna and flora of a town.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't enjoy your career,
today is the day to begin a long-term plan
for creating a career that interests and excites you.
And, in the short term, even if you hate your job,
look for small joys at work each day,
perhaps in your interactions with customers and co-workers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The interests of a nation, when well understood,
will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Today is life - the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
- Marie Curie
Rituals are important.
Nowadays it's hip not to be married.
I'm not interested in being hip.
- John Lennon
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Success is never so interesting as struggle
- Willa Cather
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
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
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
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
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
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
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
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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