W Quotes
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“When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.”
“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”
“When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord' (Ps. 118:11). Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and the glory of God will walk with you; and 'you will be filled to your soul's desire' (Isa. 58:11).”
“When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.”
“When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.”
Source: Spirits Rising
“When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.”
“When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.”
“When a toddler walks, what effort (purusharth) has he done in that? It is actually the prakruti (non-Self complex) that makes him walk!”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.”
“When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“When a town or city of people come together, their energies can be driven toward a common goal that offers healing power after tragedy, strength in times of need, and survival even when death is at everyone’s doorstep.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“When a toxic employer damages your health, publicly hunt them down with science.”
“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.”
“When a train approaches a station, the first thing that enters the station is not the train itself, but its distant view, the light shining from its window, the sound of the train, the air that the train pushes in front of it, etc., and then the train itself comes; when a person enters a place, the first thing that enters is not the person itself, but its glory that goes ahead of it and reaches everywhere before it!”
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”
Source: Jesus is Victor
“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.”
“When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another language is almost the work of two people. And that is quite interesting to me.”
“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
Source: The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower
“When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.”
Source: The Beauties of Bacon
“When a tree falls, it is only seeds that don't worry about their fate.”
“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”
“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”
Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
“When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.”
Source: Beneath the Wheel
“When a tree wants to rise really high, it sends down its roots really low.”
“When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“When a troll tries to piss on your leg online, simply reply with: "Does your mom know she raised a little asshole?" It attacks him on so many different levels at once, he won't know how to respond.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.”
“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”
“When a true person starts actioning, it doesn't mean it's an ego or something else, it simply means the person wants to spread the truth which is hidden inside them.”
Source: Who has a heart and the mind?
“When a trust is betrayed, that has to be rebuilt.”
“When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.”
“When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.”
“When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.”
Source: Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing
“When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“When a university administrator or anyone in a public office engages in corruption to satisfy themselves, they immediately become an enemy of our people and we will fight to stop them”
Source: Persecuted in search of change
“When a value is communicated well, it gives your potential customers an option to choose you over others and to stick to your brand.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“When a venture capitalist says, "We are now one team," take it with a grain of salt—and remember, his primary job is to make sure that you do yours.”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.”
Source: Five years
“When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.”
“When a violent murder occurs most people always expect it was a man, most never expect a woman, sometimes if we are not wary, we literally can be a victim of our expectations.”
“When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.”
“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
“When a vision is inspirational, such as putting a man on the moon, it can unify a team toward a common goal.”
Source: A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Healthier, Happier, and More Resilient Workforce