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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Blaise Pascal

God, Heart, Through

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou

Become, Early, Feather

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi

Different, Essence, Religions

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams, Time, Lonely

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Good, Character, Parents

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Talk, Here

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

Life, Attitude, Bad

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Change, Sense, Dance

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Through, Perfection

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, Advantage, Pleased

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Real, Mental

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Free, Become, Act

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

Live, Fashion, Ideas

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Rights, Individual

Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Themselves, Shallow

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan

Problems, Solve, Tend

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Advice, Pass

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Family, Seen

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Writing, Study, Lives

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Put, Talent

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Everything, Two

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Children, Human

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Cannot, Results

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning, Evening, Whole

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi

Accept, Within, Voice

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, Learned

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi

Him, Die, Brother

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

History, Future, Past

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde

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