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Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Related topics: Wisdom
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther 
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
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