W Quotes
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“what we believe is most shameful and unique about ourselves is often what is most human and universal”
Source: The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
“What we believe is possible for us is nothing compared to what God can make happen for us. And moments that truly take our breath away are those moments when divine will put impossible odds in their rightful place.”
“What we believe is possible for us is nothing compared to what God can make happen for us. And moments that truly take our breath away are those moments when divine will puts impossible odds in their rightful place.”
“What we believe matters.
When our beliefs come from a foundation of love and compassion,
a just society will rise.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.”
Source: Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World
“What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually just the pretexts for it.”
“What we believe will always be more powerful than what's real.”
Source: The Outsider’s Mind : A Collection of Short Stories and the Quotes They Inspired
“What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.”
“What we believe, we see.”
“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,
Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.”
“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”
“What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.”
“What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.”
“What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat”
“What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)
“what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness”
“What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“What we call an ending is sometimes only a tool laid down—so hands can be free to build the next thing together.”
“What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.”
“What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!”
“What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.”
“What we call birth
Is but a beginning to be something else
Than what we were before; and when we cease
To be that something, then we call it death.”
“what we call birth is
when something first changes out of its former condition,
and what we call death is when its identity ceases;
things may perhaps be translated hither and thither;
nevertheless, they stay constant in their sum total”
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.”
Source: Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.”
Source: Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.”
“What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.”
“What we call creative work, Ought not to be called work at all because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a days work in the last fifty years.”
“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”
“What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.”
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.”
“What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.”
“What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.”
“What we call evil is the instability inherent in all mankind which drives man outside and beyond himself toward an unfathomable something, exactly as though Nature had bequeathed to our souls an ineradicable portion of instability from her store of ancient chaos.”
“What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.”
Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition
“What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.”
“What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.”
“What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.”
“What we call happiness and unhappiness are no more than feelings floating over the innermost halls of the soul; they are pure emotional and mental states, and thus they can never be fake, regardless of the veracity or falsity of the condition that caused them.”
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“What we call happiness is what we do not know.”
“What we call “Higher” behavior is elaborated by our abstract mind to ensure survival by an efficient cohesion of our clan.
What we call “lower” behavior is to ensure survival at the expense of a rival, or to prevent the survival of a rival to be at our expense.
So,
Be they our “higher” and “lower” behavior/selves, our humanity and inhumanity, our “Divine” and “diabolic” trends, or any aspect of our Human Nature,
All are created by our abstract mind to ensure survival in an environment of scarcity.
But of course you can always choose to adopt “revelations” which present human nature as:
A messed up image of a messed up supernatural coexistence between two messed up opposite supernatural entities with a messed up relation.
Ultimately, we all think we choose by what we think we know.”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.”
Source: Hiroshima in America