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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by P. J. O`Rourke.
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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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
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
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 human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
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
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
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)
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
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
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
- Ernest Holmes
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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