O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.”
“Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.”
“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.”
“Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.”
Source: Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America
“Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.”
Source: 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
“Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.”
“Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we cane
But you I'm sure I've met
Long before the night the stars went out
We're meeting up again”
Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
“Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.”
“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.”
Source: Dear Me
“Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.”
“Once we are firmly on the path of forgiveness, we will find that it leads to lifting repressions and healing memories. Our happiness, lightness, joy, and peace will noticeably increase with every repressed hurt lifted and painful memory healed.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“Once we are firmly on the path of forgiveness, we will generally find that this process spontaneously leads to lifting repressions and healing memories. It is a natural and helpful coincidence of being interested in forgiveness. Further, we will find that our happiness, lightness, joy, and peace will noticeably increase with every repressed hurt lifted and painful memory healed.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Once we are made aware of the universality of our angsts and joys, we become one under the sky of humanity”
“Once we are on-board with our own sense of self-worth, we are empowered to drive our lives in whatever direction we wish.”
“Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.”
“Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".”
“Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.”
“Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.”
“Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.”
“Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.”
Source: On the contrary
“Once we attain self-awareness, we stop becoming the victims of worthless comparisons, identity clashes and, of course, idle mindsets that make further progress impossible.”
“Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.”
“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”
“Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.”
Source: MAKING THINGS GROW
“Once we become our own ghosts,
we constantly ask how we died
and who ultimately killed us—
we never recall the moment
when everything turned against us,
how we drowned in the demands of life.
Like someone waking from a dream,
suddenly wary-eyed and cold,
we finally remember that we
haunted others and fled our own souls
by imitating their lives nearly perfectly,
yet death eventually caught up with us.
Somehow, we ask ourselves
where everyone else has gone and how
nothing ever escaped the mind we now possess.”
“once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied”
“Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.”
Source: What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith
“Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent
“Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .”
“Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.”
“Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.”
Source: Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays
“Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
“Once we believe we will one day fly, an awkward leap is more precious than the security of well-trodden paths.”
Source: On the Marble Cliffs
“Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.”
Source: The Language of New Media
“Once we choose hope, everything is possible.”
Source: Stories to Comfort the Soul
“Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967
“Once we'd balled up our burrito wrappers and tossed them into the trash, Jake and I walked several blocks from El Farolito to the home of Gus, a rescued shepherd mix that I walked a few afternoons each week. Jake sat on the stoop while I ran upstairs. As usual, Gus was waiting for me at the door of his apartment,; I could hear his tail pounding the floor as I turned the key in the lock. Once I got inside, he hopped around me, nipping delicately at my fingers, nails clackety-clacking at the floor, his tail an ecstatic black blur. I knelt down in front of him, pressed his floppy, expressive ears flat back against his head, and planted a kiss on the side of his long, black schnoz. He whined happily, his whole body shimmying. Gus was one of those dogs who had an entirely different personality at home, where his sense of security gave him the confidence to be joyous and goofy. Out on the street, the shelter pup in him came out and he turned skittish and sorrowful, his tan quotation mark eyebrows pressing together to turn his forehead into a series of of anxious wrinkles. Needless to say, I was gaga for Gus and his layered personality.
Downstairs, I could see right away that Jake loved dogs as much as I did. I had to warn him not to try too hard with Gus; too much attention from a stranger would only make Gus more nervous out there in the big loud world. Jake managed to restrain himself for half a block, but soon was cooing down to Gus, running his hand down the length of his silky black-and-tan coat, and passing him a little piece of chorizo from a napkin that he'd somehow slipped into his pocket at El Farolito without me noticing. Gus pressed himself against Jack's leg and looked adoringly up at him as he gobbled the meat, his tail for a moment wagging as freely as it did at home.”
Source: How to Eat a Cupcake
“Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.”
“Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.”
“Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.”
“Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.”
“Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.”
Source: Stray Birds
“Once we erase ourselves, then there's no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We've awakened from the dream and the dream has faded.”
“Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all.”
“Once we experience divine guidance, we begin to make changes within ourselves, mentally, physically, and spiritually. We are no longer lost in the world, we can finally see. No longer blinded by the enemy.”
Source: Release The Ink
“Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves.”