W Quotes
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“We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.”
“We are communing with the moon and the stars,
But alas, we have not reached the heart of our neighbor.”
Source: A tear and a star
“We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.”
“We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.”
“We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.”
“We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.”
“We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.”
“We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization.”
“We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.”
“We are complete in ourselves. But sometimes it takes a life time for us to understand this. For every doubt that breeds in our own mind, we have a confident thought to balance it! There is light within all of us but sometimes we choose to see only the darkness. We are strong in ourselves but sometimes we choose weakness. Because at the end of the day to have felt sadness means we are capable of discovering happiness too!”
“We are complete in ourselves. But sometimes it takes a life time for us to understand this. For every doubt that breeds in our own mind, we have a confident thought to balance it! There is light within all of us but sometimes we choose to see only the darkness. We are strong in ourselves but sometimes we choose weakness. Because at the end of the day to have felt sadness means we are capable of discovering the happiness too!”
“We are complete in the womb itself, she thought in terror. We only unfold.”
Source: A Game of Hide and Seek
“We are complete press sluts.”
“We are completely amazed by the wonders of God.”
“We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.”
Source: Be Who You Are
“We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.”
“We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.”
“We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.”
Source: Public Opinion
“We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.”
Source: Writings on Art
“We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.”
“We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human
being.”
Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our historic responsibility to acknowledge the continuing importance of myth, at a level beyond science, in realizing a more organic, holistic relation to the world. A future social ecology would transcend both anti-Enlightenment reaction and [a] reified Enlightenment counter-reaction, which remain only fragmented polarities within bourgeois modernity.”
Source: Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology
“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.”
“We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“We are condemned to live together.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.”
“We are conductors for spiritual life. You can be a dreamer and dream by the Spirit of God. If you dream by the Spirit of God you are called a prophet. If you bring forth the Word of the Lord into this realm of appearance because you have received a dream, you are a prophet of God, but there are those who dream by ungodly spiritual power. The prophet Jude calls them filthy dreamers. Do not listen to their dreams or what they say because they defile the flesh which reflects the power that exists in us.”
Source: Out of the Dust
“We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We are confident that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations can become the greatest input of the recent decades in achieving peace and stability in the South Caucasus. With this vision, we have agreed to move forward without any preconditions, not making our relations contingent upon Turkey's recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, if, as many suspect, it is proven that Turkey's goal is to protract, rather than to normalize relations, we will have to discontinue the process.”
“We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.”
“We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.”
“We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning”
“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.”
“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
“We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.”
“We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.”
“We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.”
“We are connected to other human beings on this earth– genetically, historically,' Winn says. 'It's like magnets, I may not know where the other end of the magnet is, but I'm being pulled to it. How can we answer anything about ourselves if we don't know what our roots are, if we don't know who are people are?”
Source: The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
“We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates”
“We are conscientious practical human beings whose initiatives should be dictated by the demands of the circumstances and not by ideologies and schools of thought.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“We are conscious about our existence but not awaken on our Intellect.”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“We are conscious beings always experimenting with the mystery of becoming our ultimate manifestation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.”
Source: Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here
“We are conscious of ourselves because we are conscious of others; and in an analogous manner, we are conscious of others because in our relationship to ourselves we are the same as others in their relationship to us. I am aware of myself only to the extent that I am as another for myself.”
“We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.”
“We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.”
“We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi