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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Cannot

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love, Friendship, Fire

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Mistakes, Nothing

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles

Love, Friendship, Alone

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

Love, Hurt, Until

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Good, Knowledge, Alone

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Change, Future

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Stupidity, Human, Two

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

Life, Forward, Reality

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Wisdom, True, Nothing

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

Liberty, Second, Importance

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

Everything, Sun, Else

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor, Higher, Superior

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Yourself, Catch

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whole, Making, Eye

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

Time, Future, Live

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln

Interfere, Safeguard, Liberties

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Life, Others, Lived

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Lived, Understood

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Good, Men, Evil

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Friendship, Sunshine

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Success, Experience, Character

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

Fear, Help, Moment

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

Life, Peace, Hope

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Everything, Cannot, Refuse

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

Best, Keep, Company

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.
Oscar Wilde

Find, Before, Rest

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Hope, Fear

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