W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When life seems like an uphill task do not ever give up on yourself or on life! Travel to a new place, learn a new language, embrace a new culture, play a musical instrument, read a good book, watch the sunrise, experience the sunset, go for a swim in the river, hug a tree, sit near the lake, or climb a mountain! You will fall in love with life all over again!”
“When life seems too overwhelming, we must dedicate time to experience nature.”
“When life slows without your permission, it’s not punishment — it’s preparation for the person you’re about to become.”
Source: Quiet Era Diaries: A Self-Healing Journey Through Solitude and Stillness
“When life sucks everything out of you, wait until it floods you back with an unbeatable triumph.”
“When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.”
“When life sucks, throw yourself into art.”
Source: Clown Girl: A Novel
“When life suddenly becomes sad after being happy, it can make you feel really helpless. But remember, it's okay to feel that way. You might feel weak, but you are strong. Talk to people you trust, take small steps, and you can find happiness again.”
“When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.”
“When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.”
“When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.”
“When life takes you down like Brock Lesnar, You have to be Goldberg. But struggle doesn't stop there, you will be taken down again soon. You will have to be Undertaker this time. It is all about improving and improvising.”
“When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.”
Source: Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“When life throws a curveball at you, make sure you hit a damn home run!”
Source: Don't Settle
“When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.”
“When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“When life throws garbage at you, and people are hesitant to come closer to you, remember that there is still a pristine flower within you, and it will forever blossom for you.”
“When life throws uncertain flints of doubt and disharmony, and the roads seem to be lonely. The wanton gust pulls your zest apart and you are left with your shattered heart. You may never know someone's full story so never be quick to judge someone's life because the universe itself keeps the untold mysteries in its murkiest heart.”
“When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“When life throws you lemons... throw them back!”
Source: The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook: Practical Tools for Growth, Connection, and Leadership for Everyone
“When life throws you lemons you make lemonade,When life throws you trash throw it out, feeling extremely thankful that I have the ability to determine between the two”
“When life turns dark and we’re pounded by the gale force winds of adversity, things are different. It is in such a maelstrom that the power of our principles are either shown to be steadfast or fall fast.”
“When life turns out to become a muddy pool, we have got to recognize we must fire away and get down to leave for limpid waters and take possession of our dream to follow the flight of the swallows that still hover high in the blue sky of our memory. ("Halt in flight")”
“When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.”
“When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)”
“When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.”
“When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.”
“When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”
“When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.”
“When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.”
“When light brings me sorrow
And dark gives me peace
It's difficult to reach tomorrow
And hope blooms in endings”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship.”
“When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.”
Source: A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
“When light returns to its source,
it takes nothing
of what it has illuminated.
It may have shone on a garbage dump, or a garden,
or in the center of a human eye. No matter.
It goes, and when it does,
the open plain becomes passionately desolate,
wanting it back.”
Source: The Essential Rumi
“When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.”
“When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.”
“When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".”
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.”
Source: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”
“When Lillian (Holt) argues that leadership steals your spirit, she means that institutional pressures change you; they erode your courage, passion and humour and wear you down so that important things don't get named and get overtaken by the trivial. In the following excerpts from one interview I undertook with her, Lillian elaborates why Indigenous Australians find it hard to speak out.
There is a systemic blockage. Something happens to Aboriginal people who work in hierarchies, whether bureaucracy or academic… a bit like my own story of climbing the ladder of success. You get to the top and find it bereft, bereft of passion, bereft of intuition, of emotion. 'For God's sake don't talk about emotion in a place like this!”
“When limitations breaks ,multiplication sets in. Brimekonsult”
“When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
“When Linda danced, her body twisted and swayed in a hypnotic motion which caused envy among her dance friends.”
Source: Salsa
“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”
Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more
“When linking actions with thoughts and the connection they bring to life it is easier to appreciate what is instead of what isn’t.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.”
“When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.”
“When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.”
“When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.”
Source: Electrical Forensics
“When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.”