O Quotes
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“On the spiritual path, the purpose of my relationship is to wake up and get to know ourselves and our lover, thoroughly, without judgment or pride. On the spiritual path, we enter into a shared union where we cherish and give to each other, expanding our ability to love unconditionally. We would also accept that the process an be awkward, unpredictable, challenging, and surprising.”
Source: If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
“On the spiritual path we choose to give a certain amount of time and effort to be in the company of the Divine consciously and intentionally. It‘s appropriate to have, as we have in our Tradition, times of the day dedicated to this. There are times when we make an effort to bring ourselves into the presence of God. In our Tradition there is a physical effort involved in worship – the postures of bowing and prostration during salaat, or the practice of turning. It‘s „doing,“ not just a „being“ in Sufi spiritual practice. It‘s „doing“ with „being.“ The physical efforts in the ritual prayer also are done in time. We undertake the ritual prayers at the times indicated, following what we believe to be a heavenly, ordained pattern, not merely at our convenience, not just when we want to. (p. 3)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.”
“On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.”
“On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism”
Source: Writings on evolution, 1843-1912
“On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.”
“On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.”
Source: A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.”
“On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.”
“On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.”
Source: Lectures on the Philosophy of History
“On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced around at the audience, watching their faces, gratified that they were as captivated as I was by the dark, thunderous song that Tristen conjured.”
Source: Jekel Loves Hyde
“On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.”
“On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.”
“On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.”
“On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.”
“On the stairs [Cathryn] paused and held up her hand.
“Listen—joy has been returned to this house.”
Source: Joy
“On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.”
Source: The Stranger's Child
“On the stairs, in the dank daylight, I take the necklace out of Bill's trouser pocket and look at it, then in at him, trying to fathom what to any other man would be obvious but to me is an impossible hiding, a lie too devastating, the series of events that must have unfolded to which I've been ignorant.”
Source: The Lamplighters
“On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.”
Source: No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology
“On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.”
Source: The Road Back: A Novel
“On the steps leading to a door
was a scrub brush that was blue.
I snatched it quick and ran for home
because it was just the thing to chew.”
Source: Buster the Treasure Hunter Dog
“On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“On the stern quarterdeck, Leo rushed around like a madman, checking his gauges and wrestling levers. Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel of a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.”
“On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.”
“On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.”
“On the street, cars hurtled toward their destinations in a symphony of sound. Trees lined the pavement in a powerful show of survival: here they stood in this urban landscape, long-limbed and capable. And green, so green, sunlight pierced through their leaves and marked the concrete with dappled grays. I made my way home to my family, one among a million travelers crossing the city’s
great canvas in quick strokes. Everywhere there were colors by the thousands—tint upon tint, shade after shade—of everything the spectrum of beauty satisfied. Everywhere, there were signs of the renewal and restoration of life.”
Source: The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories
“On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.”
“On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again”
“On the streets you'll stay, and your children, and it'll be no more than you deserve. We are punishing poverty," she said, pushing away her plate: "If you are poor, and miserable, and behave as you might well expect a poor and miserable person to behave, since there's precious little else to pass the time, then your sentence is more misery, and more poverty.”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.”
Source: The Laws of our Fathers
“On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.”
“On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session.”
“On the subcontinent, Pakistan has passed the point where solar power is cheaper than a lot of electricity that comes from diesel generators,and India is upping its target from 20 to 33 gigawatts to be installed by 2020”
Source: Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy
“On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.”
Source: Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales
“On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower.”
“On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.”
“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”
“On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.”
“On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.”
“On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that
the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of
course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of
the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and
how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done
the devilʼs work for him.”
“On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.”
“On the subway I felt I had a secret knowledge - I probably wasn’t the only one - a secret reason to travel, knowing that this exercise was ultimately for me, all these encounters brought with them lessons on how to live. And also how to shut up. In these years of increasing volume I had so many great reasons to stay quiet and bear witness.”
Source: New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
“On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.”
“On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.”
“On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?”