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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
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
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
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
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
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
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
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
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
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
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
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
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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