W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are."
When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)
"We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are”
“When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.”
“When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.”
“When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.”
“When someone says that I'm a papa villero, I pray only that I might always be worthy of it.”
Source: Hope: The Autobiography
“When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.”
“When someone says that their love will never die, it means that they love is not real, for everything that is real dies.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River
“When someone says that they’re going to give me a piece of their mind, that assumes that they have a mind to give me a piece of.”
“When someone says the world is mostly water,
I say, And poets.”
Source: Dialogues with Rising Tides
“When someone says they love you, don’t believe it. Love is shown with actions and not words.”
“When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment”
“When someone says to me, "I have been talking with this girl for a while. We're trying to figure out when to make it official, like, Facebook official. What's your advice?" I always ask in response, "Are you, as an individual, in an emotional, spiritual, and financial situation where you feel you could reasonable get married in the next six months?" Normally the guy answers, "No." I respond, "Then you do not need to be in a rush to try to lay some claim on this girl. You do not need to expedite attempting to name your relationship. Because what you are trying to do is get the security and comfort of locking her down, saying to the world, 'She is MY girlfriend.' But what does that mean? It means other guys can't have her. It means you have laid a certain claim on her. But under God, you have no rights over her! She can do whatever she wants!”
Source: Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.”
“When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.”
“When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.”
Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
“When someone says to you, “I’m a Reiki Master,” it’s supposed to sound impressive. But what does it mean? It may simply mean that he or she has paid money to train for a few days with someone who trained with someone else over a few days – and so on. You get the picture. All of a sudden we have an explosion of ‘Masters’ – Reiki Masters, IET Masters, Tantric Masters, Seventh Level Ascended Violet Flame Masters of the Black Star. OK, I made the last one up! But we do have to laugh at ourselves if we believe we’re Masters of something after a few weekends, or now after doing an online course! Who are we fooling?
Real Masters don’t need to tell you that they’re Masters. You’ll know just bye being around them. A real Master is someone who has spent a lifetime getting to know themselves in all their darkness and all their light, without needing to identify with either aspect of the opposite poles that live inside us all. Real Masters are ordinary people, like you, like me, humbled by the immensity of the mystery we are living. They radiate a presence, not a personality. There’s a world of difference.”
Source: The Possibility Exists ...: One Man's Search for Freedom
“When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?”
“When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.”
Source: Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
“When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything”
“When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.”
“When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing
“When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.”
“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Source: The Alchemist
“When someone sees you headed in a direction, and that person throws a brick into the road, that is the precise moment to forge onward, with greater velocity, toward your destination.”
Source: Just as I Am
“When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.”
Source: Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity
“When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.”
“When someone shares their distress or their inadequacies, the natural inclination is to comfort them. To mollify. When we do this we brush over their emotions, often because they make us uncomfortable. Most times, people don’t want a blanket. They want someone who is willing to stand outside and shiver with them in the cold.”
“When someone shows you a picture of their kids what they don't want to hear is Oh, yeah, I got pictures of your kid too.”
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto, what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.”
“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it is important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.
~Maya Angelou”
Source: LIVING WATER FOR THE THIRSTY SOUL: 365 STORIES OF HOPE HEALTH & HEALING
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. They know themselves much better than you do.”
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are”
“When someone shuts down on you... There were a couple of times of somebody that was just unpleasant, and you can't get them to loosen up. It's this horrible spiral when it's on camera, because you're trying to get them to like you, to trust you, to give you decent answers.”
“when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.”
“When someone speaks to you, gripes at you, whines or cries or barks at you, resist the natural tendency to swiftly respond, and instead, listen carefully with the intent to honestly understand. The more you listen to comprehend exactly what the person is trying to communicate, the more you begin to know the individual and his or her concerns. As you grow to know the individual, the easier it is to care. This leads to greater love towards the person.
So to restate a truth: the more you listen, the more you understand. The more you understand, the more you care. The more you care, the more you love. And the more you love, the stronger your relationship will be.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.”
“When someone stabs you in the back and then apologizes, accept the apology, but don't give him the knife back to do it again!”
Source: BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
Source: A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“When someone stands you up for a meeting, sure, you have the right to be disappointed, and perhaps even angry. But you can't take it personally - they probably do it to everyone.”
“When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.”
“When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?”
Source: Lock and Key
“When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?”
“When someone steals another person’s ideas, it does not speak to the value of what was stolen, but to the emptiness of the one who steals. A true mind creates; it does not copy. Originality cannot be taken from another — it is born of thought, vision, and the courage to be oneself. Ideas can be taken, but the mind that created them — never.”
“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”