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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Sympathy Grief Sorrow

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg

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

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

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

All unhappiness comes from either
having less than yesterday,
or from having less than one's neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

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

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

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

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone

Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

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

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner

If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
- Winnie the Pooh

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken

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

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie