O Quotes
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“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
“Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.”
Source: Sermons
“Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.”
“Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves.”
“Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.”
Source: Myths to Live By
“Our adaptation to the natural forces
is a question of existence or non-existence.
We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they
adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves
to nature and her laws.”
“Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth.
It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our
natural wisdom.”
Source: A Gradual Awakening
“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”
“Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.”
Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our adolescent sons are eager to become heroes in our eyes, and in the eyes of the world.”
“Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.”
“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.”
“Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]”
“Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?”
“Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.”
“Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“Our adversary was not likened to a lion because Apostle Peter wanted to prove he was a bad guy at metaphors abi simile. He is actually looking for believers who will stray out of the herd church so he can devour them.”
Source: Love's Beacon
“Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.”
Source: Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity
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“Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.”
“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
“Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.”
Source: The Works of Charles Dickens ...: The mystery of Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey's clock
“Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That’s how we overcome, most of the time. It’s not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.”
“Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.”
Source: Facing Death and the Life After
“Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.”
“Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.”
“Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands-they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied.”
“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”
“Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.”
Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings
“Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.”
“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.”
Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.”
“Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.”
Source: Love and will
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”
“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.”
“Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.”
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who believes in it. The invisible spiritual bond which gives it validity, no longer exists, and so the whole age is at once comic and tragic--tragic because it is perishing, comic because it goes on.”
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“Our age works against us, as does our gender, and we can’t take this shit lying down.”
Source: Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power
“Our agency emerges through choice. Applied to our actions, we must continue choosing, thinking of ourselves as creators of our futures.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.”