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May you find great value in these quotes by William S. Burroughs.
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Related topics: Wisdom
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
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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
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
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- 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
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
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