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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- 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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- 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
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- 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
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
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- 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.
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
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
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
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
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.
- 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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
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
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
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
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
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
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
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
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
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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