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May you find great value in these quotes by Marilyn Ferguson.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Related topics: Wisdom
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
- Marianne Williamson
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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 had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
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
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