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It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
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
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 only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
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 can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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
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
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
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
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
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
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
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
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
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
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
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
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
It is necessary to help others,
not only in our prayers,
but in our daily lives.
If we find we cannot help others,
the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
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
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
In the eternity of all creation,
I am the only ME that ever will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
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