W Quotes
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“When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.”
“When someone hurts you, do not hurt them back.
Remember those hurt spread hurt, so help break the cycle. Your little empathy towards
the ones who gave you pain will start a ripple
effect that will change lives of many others.
One act, one person, one ripple at a time and
the world is changed in no time.”
“When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help. And as the Dalai Lama says, “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”
Source: Domā kā mūks: iemāci prātam mieru un mērķi katru dienu
“When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake, but as a sign of gratitude to Allah. Why you ask? For making you the victim and not the oppressor. There is no crime in being a victim, rather it brings you closer to Allah and rids you of sins. But as for the oppressor, they'll have to face their Lord one day. So in reality, they are their own greatest victims.”
“When someone hurts you over and over, ask yourself, WHY DO YOU LET THEM?”
“When someone hurts you, they usually move on without giving it a second thought.
If you don’t forgive and move on, the only person carrying that pain is you. Forgiving is not forgetting.”
Source: To Rise Above Your Fear: One Season at a Time
“When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine.”
“When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.”
“When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignoring silences people. It intentionally avoids resolution or compromise. It ignites your worst fears of unworthiness because it makes you feel that you deserve to be ignored. Inevitably, being ignored puts you in the position of having to choose between making a fuss or accepting the silent treatment. If you stand up to the ignorer and get in their face, you break the norms of polite behavior and end up feeling worse, diminished, demeaned.”
Source: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
“When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.”
“When someone insists on playing with you from another unknown number, send them this:
“Is the job complete? Let me know and I’ll meet you with the other half of the money.
Dress in all black and wear a ski mask with a red flag.”
That’ll do it.”
“When someone intentionally deprives you of something, your dignity is crushed and you feel worthless. It's one of the dirtiest feelings.”
“When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.”
“When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.”
“When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being.”
“When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?”
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
“When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.”
“When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.”
“When someone is close by, you just know it.”
Source: The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.”
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
“When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They can become infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt. Others hearts will be touched by it. And if you can create ripples around you, vibrations, you have served the world, and there is no other way to serve it - you have served the divine, and there is no other way to serve it.”
“When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.”
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
Source: Styxx
“When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team”
“When someone is drowning, its good to try and help them save their life, but if the drowning person is pulling you down as well, it is time to let them go.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.”
Source: Iceman: My Fighting Life
“When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.”
“When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.”
Source: May Your Hearts Blossom: Chicago Speech
“When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.”
“When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them.”
Source: The Tea Dragon Tapestry
“When someone is grieving, you don’t have to say anything. Just be present. Be nonjudgmental. Let them cry, scream, or sit in silence. You don't have to fix them.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“When someone is hiding a secret in a house, something changes in the air. Unspoken words, half finished smiles, eggshell steps—they distort reality, they muffle truth.”
Source: The Becoming of Noah Shaw
“When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.”
“When someone is hurt and
we hear ourselves saying
"I don't understand, why"
PAUSE
At the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"
At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,
get curious and believe their hurt state
At the pause, tap into their heart and mind.
Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.”
“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”
Source: Brain Droppings
“When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.”
“When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of course, if you know what will happen, you can succeed at doing it, so an athlete in flow has a stand-out game.”
“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
“When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!”
“When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
“when someone
is meant for you
faithful will be effortless,
like a destiny,
like a way of being
that only you make sense in,
like a journey you hold endless
stories for
wait for this.”
“When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.”
“When someone is mourning, there is absolutely nothing you could say to alleviate their pain. Just sit with them, hold their hands, and be present and compassionate.”
Source: The Alien
“When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.”
“When someone is no more, we take off immediately to find them, but while a person is alive and is desperate to see us, we have no time to visit.”
Source: Reham Khan
“When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the noise and make a decision based on the merits and what each individual kid has earned the right to do.”