Once In Our Lives Quotes

#1. I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Natalie Goldberg

#2. Mom said we should all live near the Pacific Ocean at least once in our lives, so we kept going all the way to San Francisco.

Jeannette Walls

#3. We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Thomas Merton

#4. Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.

Andy Hertzfeld

#5. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind
a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard
a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

Dale Carnegie

#8. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#9. If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.

J.D. Radke

#10. The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

Clayton Christensen

#11. Well, let's go! And we go like this now, hand in hand." "And eternally so, all our lives hand in hand! Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya cried once more ecstatically, and once more all the boys joined in his exclamation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Make certain decisions only once ... We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.

Spencer W. Kimball

#13. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

#14. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

#15. Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Ingrid Betancourt

#16. Because so many of us are now avid volunteers for a project in which we were all once dutiful conscripts, we have heightened expectations of what children will do for us, regarding them as sources of existential fulfillment rather than as ordinary parts of our lives.

Jennifer Senior

#17. All of us are cowards at some time in our lives...

Dean Koontz

#18. There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.

Kenneth Eade

#19. I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

Suzanne Anderson

#20. Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.

James Lee Burke

#21. As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

Yasmin Mogahed

#23. We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.

Laurel Burch

#24. Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Madeleine Albright

#25. Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.

Ramona Ausubel

#26. Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.

Oswald Chambers

#27. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.

Ryu Murakami

#28. When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
Walks through the land in green attire.
And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
His torch of purple fire:
And when the punctual May arrives,
With cowslip-garland on her brow,
We know what once she gave our lives,
And cannot give us now!

Bayard Taylor

#29. Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Robert Bly

#30. When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

Annie Besant

#31. I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves - and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

Spencer W. Kimball

#32. When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is possible to find what we have cut off from, to "remember" a once vital aspect of ourselves. We may uncover a wellspring of creativity that has been hidden for decades.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#33. The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives.

Robert Colton

#34. Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Peter Ustinov

#35. I'm sure we've all experienced really malevolent feelings once or twice in our lives, the desire to kill somebody,say.but there's always a braking mechanism somewhere along the line that stop us.

Ryu Murakami

#36. Love frees us of all pain, or of any restraint.
Once a circle that ever widens without end.
Various colors it shines in our lives to paint
Excelsis, glorious manifestation to befriend.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#37. Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

Leontyne Price

#38. Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear - and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A

Sherry Turkle

#39. There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

Jamie Ford

#40. Every new day is a once in a lifetime event. How much more exciting would our lives be if we embraced this truth and lived accordingly?!

Steve Maraboli

#41. In fact, Shakespeare was right when he said 'twice a babe once a man'. We are born into the world as helpless, weak infants, and some of us end our lives as vulnerable, frail adults, unable to speak coherently, or do even the simplest tasks.

George Korankye

#42. Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#43. Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

Thalassa Cruso

#44. our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.

John Selby

#45. Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

Kim Gordon

#46. Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we've forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.

Dathan Auerbach

#47. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke