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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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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin 
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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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
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
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
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
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
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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 whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
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 can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
We are all one - the web of life.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
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
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Today... maybe I can take one step
on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
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 unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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