O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.”
“Our lives begin in the everyday and stay in the everyday. Only in the everyday can we begin to create truly great worlds.”
Source: The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before. It is a quest to find ourselves: who and what we really are. To do this we must first cease to pretend to be what we are not. We must cast away our Persona or mask. We must be prepared to confront the Shadow, that which we are and rather were not. Only then can we unify our conscious and unconscious minds and so give birth to the hidden Sun - the Self.”
“Our lives can change with every breath we take.”
“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.”
Source: Betsy Was a Junior
“Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
Source: The Notebook: Student edition
“Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“Our lives change externally as we change internally.”
Source: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
“Our lives change when our habits change.”
Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star
“Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”
“Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.”
“Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.”
“Our lives disappear, even as we live them.”
“Our lives, discoloured with our present woes,
May still grow white and shine with happier hours.
So the pure limped stream, when foul with stains
Of rushing torrents and descending rains,
Works itself clear, and as it runs refines,
till by degrees the floating mirror shines.”
“Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.”
Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“Our lives, even the unruptured ones, bounce around on the sea floor. For a while we might brush tenderly against one another, but eventually, and inevitably, we collide and splinter.”
Source: Twist
“Our lives exist as a culmination of prior days; life is in a constant state of adjustment and transformation.”
“Our lives fade behind us before we die.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.”
“Our lives fully evolve on our mindset what sort of life we want it wholly depends on what sort of mindset we carry with. We cannot deserve a rich life with a poor mindset.”
“Our lives go by in our own minds. The war is inside our heads and only we can return the peace. It is essential to remember that in one sense we are always right. If we say, we can, we can. If we say we cannot, that’s how it is, we cannot.”
Source: The Easiest Way: Solve Your Problems and Take the Road to Love, Happiness, Wealth and the Life of your Dreams
“Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.”
“Our lives hang on narrative thread. . . Our world is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves -- what we believe about our lives and what we hold to be true about our world.”
Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
“Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.”
“Our lives have always been guided, shaped and led by a higher energy. Our education (mostly academic) and economic power (money, material wealth) make us believe that we are in control. We were never, are not and will never be in control. Life has been in control, is in control and will always be in control. The essence of intelligent living is the ability to embrace uncertainty and flow with Life, doing what you can do best in any given circumstance.”
“Our Lives have always been hijacked, from Preservation of Life in Old Times to Preservation of earning a Livelihood in New Times." :(
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“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
Source: The Greatest Risk of All
“Our lives improve only when we take chances.”
“Our lives intersect and interfere and there is no telling where certain beauties might come from. Some song in her heart where otherwise there wouldn't have been one and in Sarah's too passed on down.”
Source: Percival's Planet
“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.”
Source: Farther Away: Essays
“Our lives may not have fit together,
but ohhh did our souls know how to dance...”
“Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them.”
Source: Morning Star
“Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“Our lives must carry the traces of Jesus.”
Source: Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity
“Our lives must not be bogged down in trivial anecdotes, and our encounters bleed out in empty talks. A solid architecture of life vision helps us find the voice and the pulse of our personality. Moreover, it teaches us to respire deeply, inspire multiple thrilling moments and let loose while gathering rosebuds. ("Ruling the waves")”
“Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.”
“Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.”
Source: Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford
“Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.”
Source: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
“Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”
“Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievably bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments. While they are unfolding, it’s hard to see anything weird about them, no matter how closely you pay attention to your surroundings. In the midst of the everyday, these things may strike you as simply ordinary things, a matter of course. They might not be logical, but time has to pass before you can see if something is logical.”
Source: Killing Commendatore
“Our lives, reduced to mere hours, minutes, seconds, how cruel.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Our lives reflect our inner image. If we think we’re worth it, that worth will manifest in our lives. If we think we’re not worthy, we’ll live in lack. Believe your worth it and you will become worth it.”
“Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe.”
Source: Lifeviews: Make a Christian Impact on Culture and Society
“Our lives shall be better if, we heed to the pure words of God.”
“Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.”
“Our lives should be so crystal clear that no one could doubt our words.”