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May you find great value in these quotes by Euripides.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense
of what not to believe.
- Euripides
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
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
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
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
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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