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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Clifton Fadiman.
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
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
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
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
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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)
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
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
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
"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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
We are all one - the web of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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