Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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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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Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 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
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
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
I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
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 is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
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
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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