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Welcome to these Agony Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Romantic Love Sympathy Grief Sorrow
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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 is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- 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
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 only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
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
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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