Oneness Quotes (page 61)

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• friend
• today
• political

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness? in communities, in institutions, among friends. Bell Hooks

• memorial
• time
• memories

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. P. G. Wodehouse

• greatness
• pain
• pride

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

• personality
• choices
• fire

One year I went as a pirate, but from then on I went as a hobo. It's a word you don't hear anymore. Along with 'tramp,' it's been replaced by 'homeless person,' which isn't the same thing. Unlike someone who was evicted or lost his house in a fire, the hobo roughed it by choice. Being at liberty, unencumbered by bills and mortgages, better suited his drinking schedule, and so he found shelter wherever he could, never a bum, but something much less threatening, a figure of merriment, almost. David Sedaris

• memories
• memorial
• truthful

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth. Igor Stravinsky

• liars
• evening
• mostly

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Henry Miller

• life
• moments
• moment

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. Jimmy Buffett

• may
• speak
• speaking

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth. George R. R. Martin

• life
• pricing
• pay

One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born. Henrik Ibsen

• time
• law
• may

--one of the reasons I'm talking to you now is to tell you that whatever you may be planning, you must not break the law. Since I have just now stepped out of this room and any voice you may be hearing cannot possibly be mine, I must however point out to you that there are times when the law may be somewhat...flexible. Terry Prachett

• learning
• children
• study

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. Martin Luther

• missing
• dance
• caring

One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not. J. B. Priestley

• reading
• public
• readings

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett

• choices
• people
• decision

One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. If we were to apply that maxim to our lives, we could say that we are the result of many small decisions. In effect, we are the product of our choices. We must develop the capacity to recall the past, to evaluate the present, and to look into the future in order to accomplish in our lives what the Lord would have us do. Thomas S. Monson

• traditions
• must
• properly

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. Theodor Adorno