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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Only the shallow know themselves.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.