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Thornton Wilder Quotes

Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Thornton Wilder.

We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

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

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa

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

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein


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