#we cannot

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#goes #letter #like #must #objects

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#daily #daily lives #desist #find #harming

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#cannot #human #live #meditation #religion

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#cannot #countless #distant #entire #faint

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? ↗

— John Lennon

#against #any #asks #basic #cannot

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ↗

— Max Lerner

#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#also #apart #being #cannot #caused

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future. ↗

— Nick Carter

#around #behind #cannot #change #did

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#become #cannot #certainly #civilization #column

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#cannot #child #developed #formed #him