W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.”
“We are born nude and everything after that is drag.”
“We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.”
“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”
“We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.”
Source: The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning the Evolutionary Nature of Man
“We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman”
“We are born of women, learn about life from women, and learn to love through women
- yet we violate our women, despise our women, harm our women.
Isn't it time we stood alongside our women, fought fervently for our women?”
“We are born old enough to die.”
“We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?”
“We are born once and we celebrate our birthday every year till our death but to be celebrated every year after our death makes our birth meaningful”
“We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.”
“We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.”
“We are born poets. we become orators.”
“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
“We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.”
“We are born right, trusting, unlimited, with all that we love never punished. Look--our palms open but unemptied, just like a blooming thing.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
“We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.”
“We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.”
“We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.”
“We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.”
“We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.”
Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy
“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.”
“We are born to believe
We can’t change a thing
We can’t, and we never could.
But before you believe
The things you believe
You must understand
To be understood.”
“We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.”
Source: Ideas of Power
“We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.”
“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
“We are born to give; even though we are indoctrinated throughout our lives differently this simply is not what science tells us. It does seem that our natural state is to help others so I guess our goal is to find that natural state within ourselves.”
“We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it”
“We are born to kiss the stars and dance with the Moon.”
“We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.”
“We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.”
“We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of these two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love.”
“We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.”
“We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.”
“We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.”
“We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born to sit in kitchens by ourselves, with nobody to chat to." Mma Ramotswe”
Source: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
“We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice.” Vijay”
Source: Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
“We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it. That is all there is for any of us.”
“We are born, we grow, we have kids, we age and we die: Change is life.”
“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”
Source: Emile
“We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.”
“We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.”
“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”
Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing
“We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.”
“We are born with eyes not just to see beauty; but to find it. We are born with hands not just to hold beauty; but to create it. Don't just sit there. Find and create. In others, in the world, in yourself.”