I Quotes
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“It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.”
“It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.”
“It is only God who can fill our void.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.”
“It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is only God who gives strength and wisdom to fulfill the God-given dream.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is only goodness which gives extra...”
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
“It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.”
“It is only great minds that bring fame and make the university great. Not the contrary.”
“It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.”
“It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.”
“It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.”
Source: A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
“It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.”
“It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.”
“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.”
Source: Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques
“It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.”
“It is only human to want to be honestly seen, acknowledged, and adored by the one who captures our hearts.”
“It is only humans who are created to work; then enjoy their work. We have to learn to do both since we have only one life to live.”
“It is only if everyone becomes a vegetarian that reincarnation becomes possible and acceptable. Otherwise, steak lovers cannot be trusted with those who reincarnate as animals.”
“It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).”
“It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love.”
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
“It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest”
“It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“It is only in acceptance can we benefit from the truth that lives in us, that we are one with the source of our life - Water.”
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
“It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 2
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
“It is only in deep waters that a fish knows how strong it is.”
“It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.”
“It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.”
“It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life Dvd Study Guide: A Six-session Video-based Study for Groups Or Individuals
“It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.”
“It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“It is only in light that we see our shadows.”
“It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.”
“It is only in marriage that amateurs enjoy the most and not the geeks”
“It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.”
“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.”
“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).”
Source: Studies On Saving Faith
“It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.”
Source: I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education
“It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.”
“It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.”
“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social”
Source: Herland
“It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”
Source: Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986