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The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related topics: Religion

The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard

Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free my brothers and sisters
from a permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
I do not add "within the limits of the law"
because law is often but the tyrant's will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

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

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 only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

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 only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

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

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

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

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

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

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

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

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

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 happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

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

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

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

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

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

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