The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Related topics: Wisdom
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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.
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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.
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The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
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
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
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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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
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
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
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
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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