O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.”
“Our sense of taste is something that anchors us to the person we have always known ourselves to be.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.”
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.”
“Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.”
“Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.”
“Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.”
“Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.”
“Our senses are always part of the process.”
“Our senses are corrupted by noise.
Silence in order to truly feel the music and X to reveal the Y.
Shades and contrast, not only visually.”
“Our senses are imperfect. We are very proud of our eyes.Often, someone will challenge, "Can you show me God?"
But do you have the eyes to see God? You will never see if you haven' the eyes. If immediately the room becomes dark, you cannot even see your hands. So what power do you have to see? We cannot, therefore, expect knowledge (Vedas) with these imperfect senses.
With all these deficiencies, in conditioned life, we cannot give perfect knowledge to anyone. Nor are we ourselves perfect.
Therefore we accept the Vedas as they are.”
Source: Sri Isopanisad
“Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.”
“Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.”
Source: Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change
“Our senses are the lavish gift of being human.”
Source: Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
“Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.”
Source: The Story of the Stone
“Our senses, cognition, and understanding are the result of conditioning. We are not the creators of our senses or our cognition and understanding in the deepest and fullest sense. Without our conditioning, there would be nothing. Senses, cognition, and understanding among human beings may differ only in degree, based on education or intellectual capacity, but not in mystical or mysterious ways.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.”
“Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does”
“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.”
Source: The Wireless Tesla
“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.”
Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“Our senses have evolved over millions of years in order to help us to survive. They give us information as to whether food is safe to eat, where potential prey may be and whether potential predators are around. They are designed to give us information relevant to our survival. Information not relevant to our survival, will not normally be available to us. Our senses are not designed to give us an accurate objective view of the world. They require a certain amount of energy to operate and human survival requires that energy is not wasted in providing us with information not relevant to our continued survival as a species. It is hardly surprising our senses do not give an accurate or objective view of the world. They are simply not intended for that purpose.”
Source: Sense Perception and Reality: A Theory of Perceptual Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and the Observer Dependent Universe
“Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread; but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of a human body.”
“Our senses, like an antenna, pick up frequencies that we can feel but we can't see.”
“Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.”
“Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.”
“Our senses seem to deceive us into thinking that we live in the material world. Our world is not based on objectively existing particles of matter but it is based on waves of potentiality, that is pure information. Our world is informational. Think of it as an observer-centric virtual reality. Your consciousness is, rather, an optimized meta-algorithmic data stream, a sequence of conscious instants.”
Source: The Origins of Us: Evolutionary Emergence and the Omega Point Cosmology
“Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real”
“Our senses were assaulted with colours, smells and noise. We saw a million saris, and never once did I see the same pattern repeated twice. We saw poverty that both humbled and disturbed us. We bartered with street traders for Indian prices, not tourist prices. We stopped by the side of the road and watched an old man crushing sugar canes so that we could drink the juice. It was the most delectable and flavourful drink we have ever tasted. We walked barefoot around the Swaminarayan Akshardham, the largest Hindu house of worship in the world, and were absolutely awed. The whole temple echoes with spirituality and we could have spent an entire day there. I saw a village of dirty black bricks, no rendering, just filth and grime, and right in the middle an exquisite and elegant white temple, freshly painted and unblemished. We drove from Jaipur to Delhi. The previous day the road had been closed due to the Jat caste protests. Thirty people died, ten women reported being raped and buildings and cars were set on fire”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.”
Source: The Rambler
“Our sensuality helps us to penetrate those difficult-to-reach places within ourselves where our deepest longing for love, intimacy and God reside.”
“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”
“Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States.”
“Our service as believers is in our help and attitude towards others”
“Our service as believers is not complete without fellowship with people”
“Our setbacks would take on a different meaning. Instead of looking like confidence-destroying evidence of our incapacities, they would much more readily strike us as proof that we were on the standard path to what we admire. We’d interpret our worries, reversals and troubles as unavoidable landmarks, not aberrations or fateful warnings.
Confidence isn’t the belief that we won’t meet obstacles: it is the recognition that difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions.”
Source: On Confidence
“Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.”
“Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.”
Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.”
“Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.”
Source: The Constant Couple, Or, a Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal at Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants
“Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.”
“Our sexual fantasies are often redundant and intense, like many other ideas involving ourselves. Most people approach sexuality limited to the idea that they should imitate other people, art (e.g., romantic literature) or movies (e.g., pornography). In this way, vicarious events and even fictions become a point of reference that we can actually feel. We judge actual people in our real lives against fictional events and unrealistic concepts. As such, real lovers seem inferior as a result.”
Source: The Relevance of Kabir
“Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.”
“Our sexual pleasure happens within us, not on or inside our partners’ genitals.”
“Our sexuality affects everything we do, and everything affects our sexuality. The same is true of our spirituality -- that which is most deeply meaningful to us. We can deny both. But denying them does not mean they are not both alive in every breath and heartbeat of life.”
Source: Sex, God, and the Conservative Church
“Our sexuality is a perceptive faculty; it is a system of sensory perception. Just as we have a sense of sight, touch, or smell, we also have a sexual sense. This sexual sense is far from originating in fantasy or thought, it is at once spiritual and physiological.”
Source: Nondual Passion: A Quality of Consciousness in Nondual Therapy
“Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.”
“Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.”