O Quotes
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“Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth.”
“Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.”
Source: Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
“Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "pre-emptive rationalization." At some deep level, we anticipate difficulty and resistance so we start to back away from our own instinctive values perspective.”
“Often..
We feel less lonely when the chaos of solitude
is replaced by the comfort of companionship
of self-acceptance and the understanding
that within our own company, we find
a solace deeper than any external connection can provide.”
“Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity.”
“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”
“Often we find ourselves in a trap of commitment wondering if your partner can be faithful to you completely. Most people will not commit to this kind of relationship. But if you have found your Soul mate, this will not be a challenge for you. It all depends on the actions of yourself and your partner.”
Source: Your Soul Mate
“Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison.”
Source: The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
“Often we go through minutes, hours, and even days operating totally from our subconscious. We think we are in control, but the subconscious has established its own agenda and is really running the show. We are ASLEEP! Walking Zombies!”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.”
“Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.”
Source: Words I Have Lived
“Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.”
Source: Redemption
“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon word is typically a neutral one; the French word connotes sophistication; and the Latin or Greek word, learnt from a written text rather than from human contact, is comparatively abstract and conveys a more scientific notion.”
Source: The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
“Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.”
“Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.”
“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”
“Often we’re more about the anticipation and pursuit of pleasure than about the experience of it.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Often, we set our sights and hearts on the big things we are expecting God to do. That is fantastic! It is the right attitude to have. Nevertheless, look for God even in the small things in life. You need to acknowledge His goodness every step of the way!”
“Often we suffer because we don’t realize what’s essential.
We may want to be rich, but the rich are lonely.
We see all those people on TV that have won the lottery and want to be at their place, but studies show that they are even more miserable after having won the big check. They don’t really know what to do with all that money, take poor decisions on how to spend them, change themselves and their friends don’t see them in the same way.”
Source: This Moment
“Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.”
“Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"”
Source: Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice
“Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.”
“Often, we try to drag ourselves forward with harsh discipline and force. We admonish ourselves to do better, be faster, get stronger. But what if, instead, we enticed ourselves toward growth with kindness and curiosity? ... Shame drains energy; it rarely fuels sustainable change. On the other hand, inviting ourselves forward with compassion... creates a different dynamic. We move because we want to, not because we fear”
“Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now.
We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!”
Source: Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
“Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.”
“Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen?”
“Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.”
“Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!”
“Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.”
“Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.”
“Often What Comes As Free, Targets Your Choice And Freedom-The Aim Is Not To Get Your Money But You”.”
“Often what I need is even a darker darkness.”
Source: Collected Body
“Often what is done in haste, we regret at leisure.”
“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.”
“Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.”
“Often, what we call 'anxiety' is a coping mechanism we lean on, a disguise for the deeper, unexplored fears that truly drive our emotions.”
Source: Transcending Anxiety: From Fear to Freedom: Transforming Unacknowledged Fears Into a Life of Freedom and Happiness Book
“Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.”
“Often what we struggle with becomes the foundation of our greatest success.”
Source: Conquer the Entrepreneur's Kryptonite: Simple Strategic Planning for You and Your Business
“Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.”
“Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.”
Source: The Naming
“Often, when a man encounters a moment of extreme trial, his inner fears come out in the form of a specific kind of excuse. I hate to dismiss those excuses as only that, because they also often reveal a deep truth about that man, and what he believes about himself.
I am not strong enough.
I am not smart enough.
I am not rich enough.
I am not young enough.
I am not old enough.
I am not MAN enough.
Men. These are lies. These are weapons fashioned to bring you down.”
“Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.”
“Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.”
“Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.”
“Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.”
“Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.”