Living Once Quotes

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Life, You Only Live Once, Youth

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• I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Fall, Sky

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• The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

  Tea Obreht

  Doctors, Giving, Knows

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Gone

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• Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?

  William Morris

  Loneliness, Heart, Hands

  William Morris, Peter Faulkner (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.96, Taylor & Francis

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• The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Might, Problem, Institutions

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.10, Crown Business

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