W Quotes
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“When rejection comes, don't be dismayed, for it may be God's protection from what's not meant for you. Rejection can be a divine redirection, leading you to something greater. Trust that God's plan is better than yours. Though it hurts, rejection can shield you from harm. Let go and let God guide you to your destined path. In His timing, you'll find your perfect fit.”
“When relationships become tempestuous, and our hearts cannot endure the cracks of emotional blizzards, we must retreat for a while into the rabbit hole of our inner world to foster insight, redeem ourselves, and recover mental balance. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“When relationships have outlived their shelf life, people often realize that at some level, they are sticking it our because they once thought in the light of their divine love that the other person would change. Sorry for breaking the poetic hope here, but that doesn't happen. People are like rubber bands. They may be able to stretch from time to time and do some amazing things, but in general they are who they are. If manipulation and machinations on your side get them to behave the way you want, I will set my clock on the fact that they will return to their previous way of behaving, or they will keep faking it. To be in a relationship with someone who is not really there doesn't make sense. People who aren't cooperating feel like a project to us, like something for us to rescue or fix. Rescuing is the province of firefighters and fairy tales, but it's not real life. The stance of sticking it out in hopes of redemption is an old story and one that has wasted many lives.”
Source: You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life
“When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ("Mes cliques et mes claques")”
“When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.”
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
Source: DUNE
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.”
Source: DUNE
“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
“When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.”
“When religion becomes more puissant than the God Himself; the proverbial hell evolves into an unnecessary reality.”
“When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?”
Source: Demonspawn
“When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.”
“When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.”
“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”
“When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.”
“When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“When religion starts within human being? Unless the divine consciousness of the body being manifested pours grace on the seer religion will not start. This divine consciousness takes the form of a living human being and as God-the-preceptor appears in the body in 12 years 4 months age, though it is individualistic.”
“When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.”
“When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.”
“When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps.”
Source: Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
“When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical" and "merciless." (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)”
Source: Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
“When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?”
Source: Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
“When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.”
“When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answers then God is not winning. Conflict continues because of lack of communication, fear and indifference.”
“When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.”
Source: Vajra Speech
“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.”
“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
“When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.”
“When reporting behavioral problems in all staff to the upper management team, expect them to engage in a cover up at your expense.”
“When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.”
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.
Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.
President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.”
“When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!”
“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.”
“When researching human sickness, it is beneficial to have extensive root cause analysis skills.”
“When researching moonlight exposure during sleep, the historical record says you will probably go crazy!”
“When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end... You will never regret it!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“When resistance no longer serves you, you'll no longer have it.”
“When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.”
“When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.”
“When resources decide survival, power stops asking and starts taking.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“When respecting the statue of a venerable person, don't forget to respect the artist too who made that statue!”
“When restless sexual desire arises, we pay attention to it with enough understanding and enough love that it dissipates and does not grow.”
Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.”
“When revelation comes write it down.”
“When reverence is forgotten, the soul grows restless. It begins to search for beauty in places where beauty cannot dwell, and for meaning in things that do not know how to give it. In the absence of the sacred, we do not cease to worship—we simply forget what is worthy of our worship.”
“When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.”
“When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.”
“When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.”
“When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost.”
Source: Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others