W Quotes
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“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.”
“When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.”
“When people go at war they cheapen things.”
“when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.”
“When people go out of their way to be disrespectful and mean,
Put a bridle on your tongue and keep your words clean”
“When people go, the things they leave behind can feel haunted. A father can take your left ventricle and a husband can take your frontal lobe, leaving behind a tea kettle, a lamp shade from Bed Bath & Beyond. A wooden spoon can hold the existential weight of a family Bible while you turn into a shell.”
Source: Home Making
“When people go through a fight, they're saying things because they hurt, and they want to hurt the person back. Sadly, that's the nature of a relationship. It's one moment where you aren't very adult, but that's how love and a certain passionate relationship exists. When you love someone, it doesn't mean you become a perfect human being, do you?”
“When people go through bitter situations, they get a better understanding of bitter situations. They get good insight into bitterness, and they get to know the real essence of bitter situations; whether to act thereon because of bitterness, forgiveness or purposefulness!”
Source: Toxic In The Mind: daily use of the mind that kills you slowly
“When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.”
“When people go to a dojo they don't expect to master a martial art in a day or gain their black belt after a few hours of training, but for some mysterious reason they think they can achieve mastery in writing good books, building a successful business and living their best life after a few questions are answered. They are so delusional that they can't even see that they keep asking the wrong questions.”
“When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the grownups. Especially, oftentimes, for the mothers, because they are usually confined to the house. They're not going to school, and they're not necessarily holding down a job. It's tough. It's not easy to assimilate to a new culture when you're an adult.”
“When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.”
“When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.”
“When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.”
“When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, a lot of people. I never had that. I was so glad to be rid of all that crap that for me, to learn again and to function as a human being and learn how to participate in the human race again was just pure joy.”
“When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.”
“When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.”
“When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?”
“When people group together to pray or meditate with focused intention, the power is amplified and has longer lasting positive effects on the individual as well as the group.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”
Source: Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
“When people harm, gossip, slander, or speak evil of anointed ones, they risk facing:
- God's judgment and discipline (Romans 12:14-21, 1 Peter 3:8-12)
- Spiritual consequences, such as loss of anointing or spiritual stagnation
- Damage to their own reputation and relationships”
“When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.”
“When people have a low vibration they are more reactive and less able to observe and think properly. Trauma, sadness, injustice, apathy and anger, all these things bring a person down to a state from where many never get out. Then because these people can't control themselves, they are constantly reacting to the high energies they feel - pulling them down. They attack the wrong target and fear what they need the most. They literally become antagonistic to higher vibrations. It's in their nature and they can't control that. Neither do they want. They will rationalize "disbelief" and prove you wrong to make you confused before they change, even when they promise to change, because they don't want to. And why would they if they can confuse you? Confusion is a low vibration scheme, and as you go lower in this vibration of lies, you feel more lost and confused about yourself. It then happens that you are forced to abandon any group that vibrates at a low frequency because they insist on making you confused. Certainty - which is not the same as arrogance but is instead the knowing of something to be true -, is a high frequency level. And the creatures of the darkness attack precisely that certainty, by making you feel ashamed of what you know, by calling you a narcissist. You find them in all religions without exceptions. Very few people know what the light is because they have never seen their real face in a mirror when the light is on.”
“When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.”
“When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.”
“When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.”
“When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it”
“When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."”
“When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.”
Source: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
“When people have children, they have to grow up!”
“When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.”
“When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.”
“When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.”
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.”
“When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.”
Source: The Light Within Us
“When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.”
“When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.”
“When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice.”
Source: Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
“When people have not learned to interpret the past, to read the present; and to imagine and empower the future, they are living a life without a punchline, clueless about the story they are embarked upon. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
“When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.”
“When people have passion there's nothing they can't do.”
“When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.”
“When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.”
“When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.”
“When people have rejected aristocracy, no longer believe that leadership is inherited at birth, no longer assume that the ruling class is endorsed by God, the argument about who gets to rule--who is the elite--is never over. For a long time, some people in Europe and North America settled on the idea that various forms of democratic, meritocratic, and economic competition are the fairest alternative to inherited or ordained power. But even in countries that were never occupied by the Red Army and never ruled by Latin American populists, democracy and free markets can produce unsatisfying outcomes, especially when badly regulated, or when nobody trusts the regulators, or when people are entering the contest from very different starting points. The losers of these competitions were always, sooner or later, going to challenge the value of the competition itself.”
Source: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
“When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!”
“When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.”
“When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.”
“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”
Source: The Giver