Quotes by William S. Burroughs

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

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

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie