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Welcome to these Susan Sontag Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Related topics: Wisdom
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
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
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- 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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
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
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- 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
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
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 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
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
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
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
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
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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