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Once Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last…
- Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking…
- Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
- According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be…
- When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,…
- The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
- At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with…
- The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what…
- I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering…
- In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of…
- You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
- If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got…
- When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see…
- Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that…
- The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
- He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can…
- It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's…
- Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
- Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins