W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are constantly being given the opportunity to become who we are; our outward experiences catalysts to our inner knowing.”
Source: Your Vivid Life: An Invitation to Live a Radically Authentic Life
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.”
“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant forces we don’t know a thing about.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”
“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. "The Japanese are a remarkable little people," we say, as if we were doing them a favor. "He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither." Why "but"?”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.”
“We are constantly bemoaning that we have two nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who are when you put them together as unpopular a duo as we have ever had in our kind of Final Two for the presidency. There are reasons for that, regardless of who ends up winning and going into the White House, I think we need to take dig, those of us in the media, because we're the ones who can foster these discussion and ask the question what is it about the system that got us to a point where most of the people heading to the polls are holding their nose as they cast their vote?”
“We are constantly creating and evolving.”
“We are constantly distilling our selves out of ourselves like fountains that gush from underground wellsprings, flash briefly in the sun, and return to their source.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success, many pathways to do that, and we need to understand better what might be preventing people from using those pathways.”
“We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.”
Source: Sinless
“We are constantly having insights that are different than what anyone else is experiencing.”
“We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even predict our future. Like anticipatory echoes, they tingle in our consciousness, building in crescendo until the event they herald becomes fully manifest. Afterwards, they linger for a time before being drowned out by a new tide of signs rushing in upon us. Such signatures are everywhere...”
Source: Signatures in Stone
“We are constantly invited to be what we are.”
“We are constantly looking to others for love, support, and happiness, not realizing that the best person to meet our emotional needs lies within us.”
Source: Reconnect to Love: A Journey From Loneliness to Deep Connection
“We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences”
Source: Aequanimitas
“We are constantly molding the future of our love life with the energy of our sensuality, or lack thereof. Always stay sensually dialed in.”
“We are constantly on battlefield, fighting for love, life, and anything that matters to us. Fighting for what we believe is worth fighting for.”
“We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.”
“We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man's afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”
“We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.”
“We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.”
Source: E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer
“We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?”
Source: Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life
“We are constantly tied to our phones, computers, televisions, tablets, and any other device imaginable. Dedicate some time to disconnect.”
“We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens.”
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“We are constituted of Divinity itself—nothing else, nothing less.”
Source: The Love of Being Loving
“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”
“We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.”
“We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories.”
Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland
“We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.”
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.”
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.”
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.”
“we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”
“We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.”
Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.”
Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
“We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.”
“We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.”
Source: An Imaginary Life
“We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.”
“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.”
“We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.”
Source: The Science of Mind Collection
“We are continuously looking at the question of increasing the capacity of Home Affairs and that is why Home Affairs introduced mobile units, to be able to reach people. The matter of the establishment of the Social Security Agency was to deal with the matter of the more efficient distribution of these grants, the reductions in the levels of corruption and greater sensitivity. You are dealing with vulnerable people, like the elderly, who you needed to find a way of addressing, so that people don't have to be waiting in the sun in the queue, and so on.”
“We are conventional people, and conventions — if you will but see it — are majestic in their way, and will claim us in the end. We do not live for great passions or for great memories, or for anything great.”
Source: The Longest Journey
“We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East
“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”
Source: Bakunin on anarchism