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One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
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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
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
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- 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
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
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
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
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
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
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
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
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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