O Quotes
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“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.”
“One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.”
“One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.”
“One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success.”
“One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.”
“One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.”
“One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.”
“One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed,
Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.”
“One of the greatest gift you can give another human being who is going through adversity is HOPE.”
Source: Writing My Wrongs
“One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.”
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.”
“One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.”
Source: Killosophy
“One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.”
“One of the greatest gifts in life is travel.”
“One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher”
“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.”
“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.”
“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.”
“One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.”
Source: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
“One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.”
“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.”
“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.”
“One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.”
“One of the greatest gifts that we can give ourselves is the decision not to gift ourselves.”
“One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.”
“One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.”
“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.”
“One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.”
“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us”
Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie
“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.”
“One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give is
your undivided attention.”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give someone is to accept them as they are. Not because they are perfect, but because your gracious centred heart knows our flaws are what make us human.”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention”
“One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.”
Source: The Power of a Praying® Wife
“One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to be alone”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“One of the greatest gifts you will ever receive is the closing of a door that was not opened for you by the God of Heaven.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.”
“One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities”
“One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers
“one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.”
Source: What I Have Gathered
“One of the greatest human longings is to be close to someone.”
“One of the greatest humans in history ended up being the unintended founder of the world's most wanted crime syndicate - Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin, it's the british empire of organized religion, with Uncle Sam as the ideal successor to both cartels.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“One of the greatest ideas of mathematics is that all time series one is likely to encounter in nature can be described as a superposition of periodic functions.”
Source: Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
“One of the greatest indicators of how much truth and honesty is in a country, is easily seen by observing how people drive around the city. What is their attitude to the rules of road safety? What is their attitude towards other commuters? Do they try to beat the system by all means? Do they try to get their way by hook or by crook, or they follow the rules? That is also part of corruption!”
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
“One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.”
“One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.”
Source: Transforming Professional Development into Student Results
“One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church
“One of the greatest joys in life is not having any children.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert