W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When our vision starts blurring, and we lose sight of the big picture of our lives, the time has come to regain a sense of purpose and direction. By reconnecting with our authentic selves and finding sound milestones, we can discover the tools helping us navigate through the tangle of our life story and create a sense of progress, rekindling our focus and inspiration. ("No handkerchief, when you need it")”
“When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.”
“When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.”
“When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.”
Source: Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
“When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.”
Source: Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible
“When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.”
“When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts.”
“When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.”
“When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).”
Source: A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk
“When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.”
“When out in public, and are uncertain of a person's gender… stop worrying about it. It doesn't matter. They are a person.”
Source: Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities
“When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed”
Source: The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
“When ovation drowns. When the klieg lights fade. When the drum beats stop. The real you stares you in the face as you dialogue with your soul. In this moment of solitude, you are forced to ask yourself, “who was that guy that just drew a huge applause, that kept the television cameras rolling and that sent the drummers into a frenzy?” If that guy is a stranger to you, then you know you have the arduous task of reconciling the real and the imaginary you, or forever forego your happiness.”
“When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.”
“When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.”
“When overwhelmed by circumstances, we can trust God to fight for us, for the battle is not ours, but God's.”
“When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.”
“When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.”
Source: Selected essays
“When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.”
Source: Little House in the Big Woods
“When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.”
“When pain and talent mix together, that’s when you’re able to persevere in your goals in life; the pain gives your talent something to feed into.”
“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”
“When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.”
Source: Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them
“When pain ends, gain ends too.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.”
Source: Journey
“when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“When pain is about to tear you apart, never depart from prayer. Let prayer set you apart.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.”
“When pain is bottled up on the inside for too long, those who feel it tend to explode.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“When pain is branded as sacred, we stop trying to escape it.”
Source: Twin Flame Psyop: Exposing the Manipulation Behind the Illusion of Divine Love: How the Myth of the Twin Flame Journey Was Weaponized to Hijack Awakening Souls
“when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.”
“When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”
“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.”
“When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.”
“When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.”
“When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.””
“When Pandora was ready, she was taken by Hermes to Epimetheus as a gift from Zeus.
Epimetheus looked at the beautiful girl & asked her to remove her veil so that he could better admire her lovely face & he asked her to remove her girdle & white shimmering raiment so that he could appreciate the gifts of the Gods. As he had never seen a woman before. And Pandora grinned & put on an impish smile as she stood naked before him.”
“When panting sighs the bosom fill,
And hands by chance united thrill
At once with one delicious pain
The pulses and the nerves of twain;
When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
Ecstatic conscious unison, -
The sure beginnings, say, be these
Prelusive to the strain of love
Which angels sing in heaven above?”
“When Papa could speak normally, I had asked him very few questions. Now I wanted to make up for lost time. So we talked about music, but it was a strange conversation, between someone who knew nothing but a great many words and one who knew everything but not a single word.”
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“When paralyzed at a crossroads, our stress is often centered around the pieces we don’t know. We worry about the future. We seek to make the unknowns known. We try to pin down the things we can’t control. How can we look at our paths from a place of hope rather than fear?”
Source: Dare to Decide: Discovering Peace, Clarity and Courage at Life's Crossroads
“When parents and children consult together, a little bit becomes a whole lot”
“When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.”
“When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce can be alleviated. Divorce is always painful. But kids in a high-conflict marriage or low-conflict but contemptuous ones are often better off in the long run when the parent can disengage.”
“When parents as well as children are eating ‘kid food’, perhaps it’s time to call not something else. ‘Kid food’ started off as something separate and different from normal food. Now it is close to being the new normal for all age groups. The danger is that when adults have childish tastes too, it becomes very difficult for anyone to break the cycle and learn the pleasures of real food.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“When parents die, the dream dies, too—the dream that they will see you for who you really are (and, I suppose, the dream that they will ever be the parents you wish for).”
Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.