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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Andre Gide.
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -
I give thanks for the unity of all creation
and for everything that has brought me to this moment.
I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
UNITY - we are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
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