W Quotes
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“When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.”
“When one is polite in German, one lies.”
“When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.”
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”
“When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.”
Source: A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church
“When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.”
“When one is sad, it is lovely to lie in the warmth of one's bed, and there, with all effort and struggle at an end, even perhaps with one's head under the blankets, surrender completely to wailing, like branches into the autumn wind.”
“When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.”
“When one is silent, those around speak even more.”
“When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.”
“When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.”
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.”
“When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.”
“When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.”
“When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.”
“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.”
Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.”
“When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.”
“When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.”
Source: Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
“When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.”
Source: Prometheus Bound
“When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind.
Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.”
Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji
“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.”
“When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.”
“When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.”
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)
“When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?”
Source: Dancers in Mourning
“When one knows that the things useless are the things most useful under different circumstances (to give one example: a little stone lazy by a stream, which becomes important when you happen to hear its sermon), he will see that the aspect of uselessness in poetry is to be doubly valued since its usefulness is always born from it like the day out of the bosom of night”
Source: The spirit of Japanese poetry
“when one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings
“When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.”
“When one learns to love its life, it learns and feels to love others too. Otherwise, it shows self-adoring.”
“When one life changes, many lives are changed.”
“When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.”
“When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.”
“When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.”
“When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.”
Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull
“When one looks at the horizon above any body of water for long enough, they often find self-reflection in the distance.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“When one looks at the world directly, the eyes fixate the assemblage point, and no more movement is possible. Under such conditions there can be no fluidity or sobriety. Therefore one should not look at the world directly; that is, one should not stare, but glance around casually and at ease. This is true even if one is using the inner vision to look at one's own inner world.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.”
“When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.”
“When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.”
“When one loses his chit (inner component of knowledge and vision), if it fixates in one place, that is the state of unconsciousness.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”