O Quotes
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“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”
Source: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi
“Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.”
“Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.”
Source: Irish Rebel: Irish Legacy
“Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's not their fault. And then you're telling them they can't fix them by themselves. Look at your life. Your life sucks. You're a victim of these people here, you can't fix it. You need us looking out for you. "Us" being the Democrat Party in this case, the people that go out and get votes.”
“Once you crack open in pain, you are drunk from the light of beauty and anguish. The seed of agony unfurls into a flower, beneath the sun. That's the play of shadow and light.”
“Once you crack the script, everything else follows.”
“Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.”
“Once you create your own lane, there is no traffic.”
“Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.”
“Once you’d been with Freddie, you wouldn’t go anywhere else.’ (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God’s gift to women.”
Source: The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
“Once you’d known the complete, deep-seated joy of being in love, nothing else compared. Not even personal accomplishment.”
Source: The Husband Hour
“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”
“Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross”
“Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.”
“Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."”
“Once you decide to dive into that ocean of unknown which uplifts your spirit, inspite of the fears, you start producing your own limitlessness.”
“Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.”
“Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.”
“Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Once you decide to never compromise on all that which makes you happy, you will find a great clarity arriving in your Life. You will then only do what gives you Happiness. Therefore, whatever you choose to do, you will get better, and better, at doing it. Because you are enjoying doing it, because it makes you come alive. This is how Happiness drives High-Performance in Life!”
“Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.”
“Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.”
“Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.”
“Once you define yourself, you become that. So be careful of the label you give yourself.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.”
“Once you demonstrate that you care and will go the extra mile to produce added value, your prospective clients will want you to succeed.”
Source: The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
“Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.”
“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.”
“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?”
“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.”
“Once you develop the habit of forgiving, you would soon find that you do not feel hurt anymore because the same understanding which helps you forgive, helps you in not getting hurt in the first place.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.”
Source: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
“Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.”
Source: Principia Humanitas
“Once you discover something worth suffering for, suffering ceases to be relevant.”
“Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.”
Source: The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
“Once you discover that you can, then you must.”
“Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.”
“Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.”
“Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.”
“Once you discover your purpose, the goal becomes to live it in all aspects of what you do. This is the integrated life, a life in which there’s no difference between work and play; there’s only your purpose and what you’re doing at that very moment to live that truth, wholly and completely. The closer you get to that point, the closer your entire life comes to being an actualized existence, and the more likely you will enjoy many more of Maslow’s peak experiences.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Once you dissolve dye in water, you can’t take it back out. It’s like that. I can’t take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don’t like myself without my heart.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that it's not a black people problem, it's a human problem. We all can't be at peace until we are all at peace. If there's a piece of us suffering, then we are all suffering. That's what it's about. That's the macro level.”
“Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.”
“Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.”
“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”
“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”
“Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.”
“Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.”
“Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.”
“Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.”