Only - Quotes
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I Thought I was the only one.'
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
While we try not to think about it, nearly the only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we will one day die and leave everything behind; and yet, paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to believe that this is so.
The life of the individual has meaning only in so far as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.