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If the only tool you have is a hammer,
by Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Change

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively,
the basic goods of life, with awe,
pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy,
however stale these experiences may have become to others.
- Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness.
- Abraham Maslow

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If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

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

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

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

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

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

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

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

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

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

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

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

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

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

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

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

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

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

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

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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only
being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and
uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

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If the only tool you have is a hammer,
by Abraham Maslow