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If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
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Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
If love is the answer,
could you please rephrase the question.
- Lily Tomlin
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
Greetings, cosmic children of the universe.
Welcome to my serenity circle.
Please leave all bad vibes outside the healing vortex.
- the movie Shrek the Third (2007)
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation,
the greatest pleasures cease to please.
- Epictetus
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart
I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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 world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
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
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, 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 only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
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