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

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.