Oneness Quotes (page 84)

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• success
• exception
• successful

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• wellness
• soul
• guilty

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. Victor Hugo

• perfect
• about
• wronged

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect. Nick Hornby

• time
• great
• greatness

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• study
• knowledge
• reality

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very... Isaac Asimov

• love
• happy
• happy love

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• mindfulness
• mind
• time

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing... Wallace Stevens

• country
• go
• doing

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. Tom Brokaw

• him
• watch
• always

One of the odd things about Stendhal is that though he was always on the watch lest anyone made a fool of him, he was constantly making a fool of himself. W. Somerset Maugham

• diamond
• concert
• guys

One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie! Matt Groening

• emotional
• picture
• objection

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• hard
• grow
• loses

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. Che Guevara

• understanding
• women
• men

One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came to acquire, often at great personal cost, the sort of technical knowledge necessary for them to understand their own condition more deeply, and so acquire some of the theoretical armoury essential to change it. ... There is no reason why literary critics should not turn to autobiography or anecdotalism, or simply slice up their texts and deliver them to... Terry Eagleton

• lost
• lost ones
• every

One lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast Truman Capote

• personal
• fear
• powerful

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. Laurell K. Hamilton