O Quotes
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“One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.”
“One life is too short for doing everything.”
“One life is worth no more or less than any other”
“One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.”
“One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.”
“One life of sadness was enough. What is the point of risking more?”
Source: The Midnight Library
“One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.”
“One life. One chance. Mess it up and that’s it. I don’t recycle energy that didn’t value me the first time.”
“One life, one idea, one duty - love.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“One Life, One Idea (The Sonnet)
One life, one idea, one duty – love.
One body, one being, one vision – amity.
One heart, one sight, one sentiment – care.
One mind, one kind, one community – humanity.
One pen, one ink, one paper – awareness.
One hive, one height, one light – assimilation.
One kite, one compass, one flight – unity.
One sail, one sea, one ship - self-correction.
One gospel, one goal, one gamble – collectivity.
One cult, one core, one culture – unification.
One church, one mosque, one temple – nonduality.
One road, one reason, one reality – nondifferentiation.
Take the mind beyond the bind to see the world anew.
A world united comes to life when walls turn dust in you.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“One life, one path, one anthem - sacrifice.”
“One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.”
Source: Wake Me when It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back
“One life to live and humans spend the majority of it worrying about our variations. Mind blowing.”
“One life to live, if you live so well, once is enough.”
“One life to live, make it count! Walk with God!”
“One life to live, live it to the fullest. If you have doubts or your gut feeling says something, listen. Don't waste time, time will waist u.”
“one life, too many Desire”
“One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.”
Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim
“One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...”
“one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.”
“One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!”
Source: Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne
“One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
“One lifetime is not enough to live”
“One light is steady and sure, the other uncertain and flickering. . . . On balance, it's where I prefer to be: somewhere in the middle. Certainty is a dead space, in which there's no more room to grow. Wavering is painful. I'm glad to be travelling between the two.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“One likes to believe in the freedom of music...”
“One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.”
“One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.”
“One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.”
“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
Source: The Secret History
“One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.”
“One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.”
“One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“One line plus one line results in many meanings.”
“One line typed twenty years ago
can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
to glorify art as detachment
or torture of those we
did not love but also
did not want to kill.”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.”
“One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but it can't be put into words. That's what - the music has already supplied the meaning, and words will just be superfluous after that. But it's that kind of verbal meaning that can't be verbalized that I try to get at in poetry.”
“One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”
“One listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.”
Source: The Walk and Other Stories
“One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
“One little girl didn't mind the fading sun. Her mittened hands sculpted a snowman, happy to work without distractions. She whispered apologies as she thrust a carrot into his face, assuring him it was for the best and he'd be able to breathe much better now, just try and see.”
Source: The Wake Up
“One little girl.
Two soulmates.
And three mended hearts.
I’m a believer now. I can see it with my own eyes.
Everything should come in threes.”
Source: Three, Two, One [321]
“One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.”
“One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.”
“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”
Source: And Then There Were None
“One little known secret to making precisely the right move, at precisely the right time in your life is knowing that in all cases, there is more than one right move and more than one right time. Lots and lots more.”
“One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece”