O Quotes
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“One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy with a view to finding out the explanation.”
“One's interest or need does not annul other's right.”
Source: Islamic Concern for Animals
“One’s lack of confidence over oneself contributes to one’s downfall, even if such a downfall is avoidable. It diminishes whatever probabilities there are of overcoming the hurdles on the path to our success. It strips us of our ability to win a battle even when the circumstances favor us. Most of our strength, capacity and resilience gets nullified when we harbor the slightest of doubts over our own adequacies. The more the sense of insecurity, the closer we move towards defeat.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. Who is considered kashaya-free? The one whose state is that where there was no kashaya, there is no kashaya, and there never will be any. The one who is never in the state of the non-Self. Doing darshan of such a One brings ultimate well being.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
“One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read”
Source: Travels With My Aunt
“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.”
Source: Bhagavata Purana
“One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.”
“One's mind is such an old rubbish heap. All sorts of little bits of machinery start up.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“One’s mind should never dominate one’s heart, and neither should one’s heart ever silence one’s mind. Aye, the hardest of all is to achieve harmony within oneself, but by no means is it impossible.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“One's most essential attributes cannot be defined by math, but instead, by opinion; and those that can be measured by a number, are less significant.”
“One’s mouth is either a pit by which to fall down, or a mountain by which to raise up.
A pit can not be a mountain, nor a mountain a pit.
Train the mind and heart and train your mouth to raise up.”
“One's nature is like a mountain”
Source: In the Country of Men
“One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”
“One's oldness lies not always on the years and white or gray hairs; it can also depend on the mental and physical structure.”
“One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.”
Source: Dance of the Chupacabras
“One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed. Even death in the performance of one's own duty brings blessedness; another's duty is fraught with fear. (Chapter III, Shloka- 35)”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.”
Source: Blight in the Ocean
“One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.”
“One’s personal life and work are inseparable.”
Source: Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
“One’s personhood is wholly shaped and defined by personal experiences.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility”
“One's positive, and the optimistic view is itself a universe of love and harmony, it is the truth within that reality and does not require any certificate of anyone.”
“One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.”
“One's reputation must not exceed one's capabilities;
by your works you shall be known.”
“One's response holds such a possibility that clears the fog and opens the door of connection for a new way and life.”
“One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.”
“One's silence or unspoken love gains and prevails nothing. That causes the pain and damage to oneself.”
“One's soul/character is divided into pieces and seeded in different people, which we are destined to find; find the piece of our puzzle in them, for our self to be complete.”
“One’s soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish.”
“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you.”
“One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.”
Source: Healology
“One's thoughts are like the wild horse, the tongue is its reins, and the eyes are its chariot for how to see and manage that.”
“One's truest nature is often the hardest to fight.”
Source: Telepathy
“One’s truth leads to God.”
Source: In Limbo
“One's ugly face and features may not be a problem. Conversely, one's such character displays, well a problem since no one tolerates it.”
“One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, fixed and solid. When such views are well-founded, holding fast to them is commendable. But if new facts come to light—or new revelations materialize—then that block of ice should crack, melt, and even evaporate.”
Source: Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
“One’s Use of Life’, if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).”
“One's vanity makes one vain.”
Source: The Dawn of Grace
“One's very own free, unfettered desire, one's own whim, no matter how wild, one's own fantasy, even though sometimes roused to the point of madness -- all this constitutes precisely that previously omitted, most advantageous advantage which isn't included under any classification and because of which all systems and theories are constantly smashed to smithereens.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“One's who always live happily shouldn't forget others”
“One’s worldly interaction should be ideal. If one becomes ‘sticky’ (does attachment-abhorrence) in his worldly interactions, he will become kashayi (develop anger-pride-deceit-greed). The worldly life is like a boat. In this boat, you can eat snacks, drink tea. But you should know that with this boat, we have to reach the shore.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“One sacrifice awakens millions.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“One sacrifice awakens millions, One life resuscitates humanity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.”
“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')”
Source: Celestial Navigation
“One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.”
“One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.”