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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
Thought at Sunrise (2007) -
The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
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Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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