Oneness Quotes (page 971)

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• self
• men
• who we are

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. Paul Auster

• good
• saying
• marriage

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people... Kingsley Amis

• heart
• manly
• drinking

I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists. I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table manners. Yet after all why not? Why should a man who thinks all virtue resides in the proletariat still take such pains to drink his soup silently? It can only be because in his heart he feels that proletarian manners are disgusting. George Orwell

• night
• bloom
• look

The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds come in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy, Mummy?" asked Walter one night. "Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since it began," answered Anne. L. M. Montgomery

• friend
• new
• old

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one. Charles de Lint

• universe
• welcome
• evening

So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me. Martin Amis

• thinking
• together
• wellness

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another. L. M. Montgomery

• earth
• cowardly
• knowingly

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. W. E. B. Du Bois

• world
• chance
• giving

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. Isak Dinesen

• self
• evident
• nobody else

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else. Ambrose Bierce

• good
• believe
• look

I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you. Roy Orbison

• love
• life
• logic

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. Virginia Woolf

• good
• disappointment
• good woman

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. Richard Russo

• him
• one day
• wild

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion. C. S. Lewis

• wonder
• understanding
• wonderful

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? Salman Rushdie