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Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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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
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
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
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
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
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
- Audre Lorde
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