O Quotes
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“Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.”
“Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.”
“Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 3
“Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.”
“Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.”
Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
“Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think I can do it, then my actions will be "I CAN" and I am able to do it. So the result or the consequence will be "I did it!".”
“Our every breath connects us to the divine ocean of peace, joy, and happiness. Feel the joy of mindful breathing.”
Source: Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
“Our every thought reflects our level of awareness, consciousness, and love for this amazing world that we call home.”
“Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted.”
“Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.”
“Our everyday life is the manifestation of the same riot where we started and ended yesterday”
“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”
“Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.”
“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.”
“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.”
“Our evolving self-concept guides our daily actions, organizes our information processing, and fosters a stout mental predisposition that assists our ego maintain a fibrous self-image. Self-concept is not restricted to a bare assessment of what role we presently fulfill in society. Our self-image is an endogenous alloy that includes an agglomeration of past selves and possible future selves. Future selves or ‘possible selves’ represent a person’s ideas of what they might become, what they aspire to become, and what they are afraid of becoming.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”
“Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.”
“Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.”
“Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.”
“Our excessive reliance on our failing and weak education system also makes us slow to act.”
“Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.”
“Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.”
Source: Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive
“Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.”
“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....
How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.”
Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait
“Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.”
“Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.”
Source: Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos
“Our existence is an enduring endeavour.”
“Our existence is never defined by the smallness of our being or the shortness of our life, for neither are the sum total of our limitations nor the definition of our existence.”
“Our existence is ultimately based on living and loving more consciously in harmony with life, the inner self, other people, and other things. Awareness of consciousness will eventually allow us to recognize and accept that the totality of everything is one. You are the one presence that is divine in nature through the simple act of being.”
Source: Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
“Our existence isn't always rooted in logic, but in the myths we've dared to believe.”
“Our existence on earth is for our enjoyment.”
“Our existence prevails above all concepts and beliefs.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.”
“Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.”
“Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.”
“Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.”
Source: In Search of True Freedom
“Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.”
“Our expectations and experience shapes us. When we write we must find a voice that expresses our sentient self, not some idealized version of a cogent self, devoid of the exacting life-altering lessons that come with enduring a variety of experiences.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.”
“Our expectations don't just reflect reality; they also create our reality.”
Source: How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days
“Our expenses are all for conformity.”
“Our expenses change with the change in income, and we’ll never have enough money. So why not be happy with what you got.”
“Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.”