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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

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

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb

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

A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

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

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie