Intolerably Quotes

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,
and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin

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The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

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

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

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

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

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

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

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

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

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

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

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

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

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

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

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

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

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