We Cannot Quotes
2295 quotes by 1491 authors
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We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.
— George Crabbe
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We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
— P T Barnum
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for…
— Melody Beattie
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From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but…
— David Simon
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
— William Wordsworth
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We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
— Susan Jeffers
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
— Evita Peron
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
— Tom Stoppard
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
— Albert Einstein
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
— Bertrand Russell
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are…
— Tertullian
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It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
— Jack Kornfield
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We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity…
— Rollo May
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
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