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May you find great value in these Retreat quotes and sayings.
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
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
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
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
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
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
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
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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 is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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