W Quotes
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“When despair for the world grows in me...
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
and am free.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“When despair has hooked them and dragged them deep into the depths of their own personal Hells,” he said as he clenched his fist and turned to face his nephew again, “not many are strong enough to climb back out. You gave her something to believe in. You made her do something she never knew how to do.”
“What?”
“You got her to love herself. You got her to realize she deserved better, and that, is the best thing one can do for someone.”
Source: The Scion Princess
“When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.”
Source: Works
“When destiny called, it didn’t knock—it shattered reality.”
— from Echoes of the Astral War: Book One – Vatika”
“WHEN DESTINY CALLS AND PULLS AT YOUR SOUL, FOLLOW!"
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Contributing Author :Dancing In The Unknown: Real stories of the trials and triumphs of living your life your way
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“When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.”
“When destiny deals, you will find yourself staring at four cards. Inevitably, your hand will not change. Time passes and eventually you face three upturned aces, leaving one unknown. Deep down, you know what the fourth holds. Do you have the courage to flip one last time knowing there is no going back? Fate knows no bounds...”
“When destiny is at play, every wrong turn leads to the right direction.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him.”
“When destiny leads one to the frontier of his being, it makes him personally conscious that he stands before the decision either to fall back upon that which he already is or else to transcend himself. Every person is at that point led to the frontier of his being. He perceives the Other over beyond himself, and it appears to him as a possibility and awakens in him the anxiety of the potential. He sees in the mirror of the other his own limitedness, and he recoils; for at the same time this limitedness was his security, and now it is threatened. The anxiety of the potential draws him back into his bounded reality and its momentary calm. But the situation into which he will return is no longer the same. His experience of the potential and his failure toward it leaves a thorn behind, which cannot be eliminated, which can only be driven out of the consciousness by suppression. And where that occurs, there arises that spiritual phenomenon which we call fanaticism. The original meaning of the word is "divinely inspired" - that is, born out of a distraught spiritual structure and thereby destructively fulfilled. That can appear in smaller, greater or enormous measure, in persons and in groups.”
Source: The Future of Religions
“When Destiny Turns To Dust (Sonnet 2406)
At the end of the century,
fascism leaves no lasting mark
on thousand year old civilizations,
it's only the adolescent countries like
the US that get wiped out of existence.
Tyrants come, tyrants go,
both foreign and domestic,
ancient civilizations endure political
upheaval like a bleep in the continuum,
whereas, destiny manifested on patchwork history
and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.
So the world continues, culture continues,
reformation continues, even better without
the parasitic powers of world politics -
civilization thrives for they're never aloof,
but ever entwined with Nature's dynamics.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“When determined to achieve our own goals, we don't always consider others.”
“When determining the size or complexity of a new habit ask yourself, "What can I stick to—even on my worst day?"
Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance.”
“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.”
Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“When developing a business story, keep in mind that the opposition character (shadow) is just as important as the audience character (hero) is.”
Source: Business Storytelling Guide: Creating business presentations using storytelling techniques
“When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.”
“When devil hands you suicidal thoughts, he just handed you a navigational map to eternal damnation - HELL”
Source: Great Reflections on Success
“When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“When dew settles on grass, ghost tracks turn it to
gossamer rain.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“When diagnosing my long term health problems, it was logical to inspect the environmental exposures that occurred at the workplaces where I saw the onset of each particular health issue.”
“When diagnosing sickened high altitude workers, you must remember that altitude diseases are just part of the equation and the various toxic occupational exposures must be factored in.”
“When Diana finally felt ready, they went back to the shelter in Dennis and found a medium-sized mutt, a cheerful fellow with bushy brown fur and eyes like bright black buttons. He seemed to be the result of the union between a corgi and some kind of terrier, and, like Willa, he'd been abandoned, tied up underneath a bridge, starving, with his fur full of mats and burrs and every kind of bug. Diana and Michael brought him home. They brushed the remaining dirt and twigs and burrs out of his coat, and fed him kibble soaked in chicken broth, and tossed a tennis ball for him to fetch. Eventually, his favorite thing became sitting in the prow of a kayak with his back paws on the base of the boat and his front paws on its top, gazing out across the water as Diana paddled.”
Source: That Summer
“When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.”
“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.”
“When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?”
“When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?”
Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“When did America forget that it's America?”
“When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?”
“When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.”
“When did banning anything, ever work? I mean, we banned liquor once in this country, oh, that worked like a charm, didn't it, folks? You couldn't find a drink in the roaring 20's, could ya? See that's the problem with the banning thing! I say why stop there, let's not ban guns, I know, let's ban crime!”
“When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”
Source: Perfect
“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”
“When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?”
Source: Spell of the Highlander
“When did he ever do something on the spur of the moment? He'd spent all his life focusing on something in the future, trying to attain it... He never thought about anything in the here and now, and enjoyed what he had at this exact moment in time.”
Source: Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
“When did he first notice that in himself, that little fascination with damage and its consequences? He might alarm her. He might mean to alarm her. Doing damage to this fragile night because it was such an isolated thing, an accident, with a look of meaning about it and no meaning at all.”
Source: Jack
“When did I become
I and the body? When did the two of us
separate?”
“When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.”
“When did I ever teach anything wrong from this stand? When was I ever confounded? I want to triumph in Israel before I depart hence and am no more seen. I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught. Must I, then, be thrown away as a thing of naught?”
“When did I internalize the idea of what it meant to be a "woman"? Was I five years old? Six? What limitations and tiny boxes have I been squeezing myself into to fit that definition since then? Who would I be if I let myself expand beyond all of that?”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
“When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.”
“When did I lose that natural sense of accomplishment that came with everyday tasks? Was it upon the birth of baby number two, three, or four? Or did I retain it even through my sixth pregnancy, when I bleached everything in sight, washing my cotton nightgown so frequently that the bright bluebell pattern faded to a dull gray? To this day, I can recall the fresh scent of the bleached and sun-dried gown and bedsheets. It wasn’t until I’d gotten through a difficult labor and delivery, and my head hit the hospital pillow, that I realized I’d attempted to replicate the smell of hospital linens—the one place I was able to get some rest.”
Source: Called to Be Creative: A Guide to Reigniting Your Creativity
“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”
“When did I start to care about this woman who should mean nothing to me? The moment I laid eyes on her, that’s when. Fuck.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“When did I stop being me?”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.”
“When did ignorance become a point of view?”
Source: When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View: A Dilbert Book
“When DID is severe
Just as any condition may be mild or severe, this is equally true of dissociation and any condition indicated on the dissociative scale.
When someone has endured organized or ritualized abuse, dissociation may be their only defense; sometimes even this is used against them.
Whilst DID can be diagnosed with the presence of only two or more distinct parts/'self-states", survivors of chronic and complex abuse, or of organized or ritualized abuse may have many, many more parts. This is called "polyfragmentation" - quite literally "many fragments". Survivors of this form of abuse are likely to need specialized support from professionals experienced and equipped for working with this type of trauma.”
Source: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder