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Welcome to these Convivial Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
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
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
"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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
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
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
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
One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- 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
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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