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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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.
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
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Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
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You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
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
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