Once Quotes
15894 Once quotes by 7842 unique authors
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
— Frank Herbert
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about…
— Abraham Lincoln
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from…
— Bruce Jenner
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The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden…
— Rajneesh
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We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If…
— Ajahn Chah
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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or…
— Gustave Courbet
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found…
— Willem de Kooning
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Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out…
— Peter Kreeft
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience…
— Rajneesh
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Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can…
— Rajneesh
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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.
— Rajneesh
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Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher,…
— Rajneesh
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Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation,…
— Rajneesh
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The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind stops. You will…
— Rajneesh
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Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
— Clay Shirky
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A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
— Sun Tzu
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