W Quotes
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“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.”
“When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.”
“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
“When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.”
“When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.”
“When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.”
“When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.”
“When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.”
“When two people got cross with each other and stop talking, the deep silence in the air will continue to speak glowingly!”
“When two people have differing opinions, especially when the topic is sensitive and addresses the core of one's identity, being heard and understood is almost as valuable as changing the other person's mindset.”
Source: Once You See Racism: A Christian, White, Southern Woman’s Journey from Being Oblivious to Racism to Seeing it Clearly
“When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.”
Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day
“When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“When two people love each other, they do not comply and does not dominate, only complement each other.”
“When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.”
“When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.”
“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”
Source: Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights
“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”
“When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.”
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.”
“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”
Source: The Feeling Good Handbook
“When two people start talking less than they used to, there's always one person who worries about it because, deep down, they know this is not just silence, it’s the feeling of losing each other.”
“When two people talk, their words live within a shared space—shaped by trust, tone, timing, and all the unsaid things between them. Pull those words out of that space, twist them around, strip them of their setting—and to me, that feels like a betrayal. It’s not just misunderstanding; it’s a kind of violence. Literalists scare me—not because they’re wrong, but because they refuse to see beyond the surface. They flatten meaning, ignore nuance, and use language to serve their own narrow views. Context isn’t a footnote—it’s the heart of everything.”
“when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.”
Source: The ballad and the source
“When two people want different things, it can cause conflict. But when two people want the same thing and don’t realize it, it can cause war. Most of my clients come to me at war with one other. I help them remember that the goal of war isn’t victory. It’s peace.”
Source: Fling
“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”
Source: Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance
“When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.”
“When two persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him”
“When two persons are too close, they fall apart.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have taken a tremendous step towards religiousness. So love, friendship, anything that helps you to drop the mask, is taking you towards religion. But the pseudo-religions have done just the opposite. They are against love. You can understand now, why they are against love: because love will destroy the personality, and the pseudo-religion depends on your personality.”
“When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.”
Source: Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study
“When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“When two sides are accusing each other, it's very difficult to figure out the reality. Because reality is different for everyone. The difference is not just in mind. Things actually look different to different people.
Two or more people can align or sync their realities if they trust each other. When trust is gone, their realities again become different. This is Samsara.”
“When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are no longer enemies. They are fellow human beings who face the same two choices that their ancestors did for centuries before them: to destroy each other or to prosper together.”
Source: The Art of War—Spirituality for Conflict: Annotated & Explained
“When two soulful people meet the entire universe pauses in that moment!”
“When two souls are as one, they stay together on the Wheel. I was born into this world to love you, and I will love you in the next life, and the one after that." ~Jem Carstairs”
“When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.”
“When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.”
“When two souls awaken together, the whole cosmos hears their vow.”
Source: Lovemance: A Manifesto of Transformative Love and Spiritual Feminist Literature
“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.”
“When two souls unwind the mysteries of life together, a powerful intimacy develops from an explosion of two minds, a confluence of two rivers. It becomes a transformation of the emotional, and intellectual thinking, far deeper than what the mere eyes can behold. Their journey unfurls an astonishing place of love and light..”
“When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy life. When such a wedded pair find thorns in their path, each will be eager, for the sake of the other, to tear them from the root. Where they have to mount hills, or wind a labyrinth, the most experienced will lead the way, and be a guide to his companion. Patience and love will accompany them in their journey, while melancholy and discord they leave far behind. -- Hand in hand they pass on from morning till evening, through their summer's day, till the night of age draws on, and the sleep of death overtakes the one. The other, weeping and mourning, yet looks forward to the bright region where he shall meet his still surviving partner, among trees and flowers which themselves have planted, in fields of eternal verdure.”
“When two tears fall
From each eye apart,
Yet they join after all
To form a sweetheart.”
Source: Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side
“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.”
Source: The Concept of Mind
“When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.”
“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
Source: Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living