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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
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
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
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
In the eternity of all creation,
I am the only ME that ever will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
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