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There is only one time that is important - NOW!
by Leo Tolstoy

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

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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy

Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy

Only Quotes and Sayings

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller

Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung

We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell

Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

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

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie