Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone but that's usually how you end up crying?
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.
No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
Man alone is born crying lives complaining and dies disappointed.
When I decided to be a singer my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
This then is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
I don't think I could live without hair makeup and styling let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.