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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

We only have one earth. Let’s take care of it.

I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

We only part to meet again.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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.

I am responsible only to God and history.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

If you throw stones in mud, it will only spoil your clothes.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

A person hears only what they understand.

Fast cars are my only vice.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Give me love and work – these two only.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can’t be easily defined in zeros and ones.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.