W Quotes
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“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.”
“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.”
Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.”
Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA
“When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.”
Source: Meditation in Action
“When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?”
“When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.”
“When one is always doing wrong to himself, what good can he do for others? Only the one who does good for himself, can do good for others too.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“When one is an artist, what else can he be?”
“When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“When one is attracted towards a woman; it is ‘asakti’ [infatuation]. But when the soul [relative self] gets engrossed into it; that is ‘attachment’ [raag].”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy With Understanding
“when one is blessed with abundance they are also cursed with the burden of it.”
Source: Apotheosis
“When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.”
“When one is charmed,' the prince says, 'it's easy to be charming.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“When one is commuting to work, happiness is neither the journey nor the destination.”
“When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.”
“When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.”
“When one is different, the answers have to come from within.”
“When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“When one is established in Truth, the ego is surrendered (dissolved) in the fire of Truth, and the Self (Atman) unveils its eternal, divine splendor.”
“When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.”
Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
“When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.”
“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.”
“When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.
(Women in Love)”
“When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.”
Source: Daisy's Aunt
“When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.”
“When one is in love one thinks only of one.”
“When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.”
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.”
Source: The Second World War: The Grand Alliance
“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
“When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.”
“When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.”
Source: Crescendo
“When one is just sad one should just be alone.”
“When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.”
“When one is not able to take a decision out of many alternatives, the mind unconsciously
divides into many parts – sometimes as many as the alternatives.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“When one is not mindful of their continued misconduct, they cannot discern the distinction between right and wrong; wisdom dictates silence is the best approach.”
“When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.”
“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”
“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.”
“When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.”
“When one is painting one does not think.”
“When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected