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The One Thing Quotes (page 111)

Karl Rahner quote: "Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause..."
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! Karl Rahner
Leo Tolstoy quote: "To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life."
To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life. Leo Tolstoy
Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another. This makes something in a way infinite and eternal. It is not that any of this is really infinite and eternal, but these finite entities multiply infinitely. Thus only number, which multiplies them, seems to me to be infinite. Blaise Pascal
For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed. Yukio Mishima
Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more. Stephen King
Paulo Coelho quote: "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to..."
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure. Paulo Coelho
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you. Leo Tolstoy
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... Andre Maurois
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone Jonathan Lethem
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now? Elizabeth Gilbert
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered. Mitch Albom
Heraclitus quote: "19 Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated..."
19 Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things. (translated by Brooks Haxton) Heraclitus
Leo Tolstoy quote: " in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one..."
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still..."
You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still troubling me: You don't know your way to the sea. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workin or a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?' And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars,... Jack Kerouac

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