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May you find great value in these Reminiscence quotes and sayings.
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
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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
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
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
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
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
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
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 heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
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
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- 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
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