W Quotes
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“When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.”
“when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.”
Source: The Master's Violin
“When one has let go of that great hidden agenda that drives humanity and its varied histories, then one can begin to encounter the immensity of one's own soul. If we are courageous enough to say, "Not this person, nor any other, can ultimately give me what I want; only I can," then we are free to celebrate a relationship for what it can give.”
Source: The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other
“When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up on the top of the sycamore tree by mortifying his members which are upon the earth (cf. Col. 3:5), and having risen above the body of humiliation, then he shall receive the Word, and it shall be said to him, This day has salvation come to this house (cf. Lk. 19:9). Then let him lay hold on the salvation, and bring forth fruit more perfectly, scattering and pouring forth rightly that which as a publican he wrongly gathered.”
“When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.”
“When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”
“When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor
“When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.”
Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
Source: The fall
“When one has no form, one can be all forms.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.”
“When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source.”
Source: The First Wall
“When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.”
Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
“When one has not known anything but becomes infected with the ‘disease of knowing’; he is a grave diseased person. What is the result of knowing? One stops playing with the ‘tops’ [living as the relative-self] and starts playing with the Self [lives in the realm of the Self, The Soul]. The diseased one simply does the ego of knowing.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?”
“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
“When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.”
Source: Second Ring of Power
“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.”
“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsaking beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.”
“When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.”
“When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.”
“When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.”
“When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.”
Source: The Red Baron
“When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.”
“When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.”
Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist
“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.”
“When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.”
“When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.”
“When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".”
“When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.”
“When one has walked a long way to reach the turning in the path that discloses an anticipated view, and that view appears, there is always a vibration of the landscape. It is repeated in the walker’s body. The harmony of the two presences, like two strings in tune, each feeding off the vibration of the other, is like an endless relaunch. Eternal Recurrence is the unfolding in a continuous circle of the repetition of those two affirmations, the circular transformation of the vibration of the presences. The walker’s immobility facing that of the landscape … it is the very intensity of that co-presence that gives birth to an indefinite circularity of exchanges: I have always been here, tomorrow, contemplating this landscape.”
“When one hears about acts of extraordinary bravery in combat, it is usually a sign that the battle has not been going terribly well. For when wars unfold according to plan and one's own side is winning, acts of exceptional individual heroism are rarely called for. Bravery is required mostly by the desperate side.”
Source: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
“When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.”
“When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want.”
“When one heart moves the whole web trembles.”
Source: Lying Awake: A Novel
“When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.”
Source: Echoes: Book 3 in the Glenbrooke Series
“When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.”
Source: Tales and Novels
“When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love our neighbor as ourself. We care about dismantling institutional racism. That begins in relationships when you see injustice happen.”
“When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.”
Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley
“When one individual succeeds, their success generates a ripple effect, creating jobs, sharing cultural enrichment, and fostering innovation.”
Source: Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
“When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.”
“When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.”
Source: Bowen's Court