W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“When we accept brokenness, that feeling of being cut off from our true potential based on what has happened to us, we admit defeat. But if we see ourselves as whole, being able to overcome the pain of the past, we regain our power.”
Source: The Wholeness Revolution
“When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.”
“When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.”
“When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she sleeps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.”
“When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.”
“When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.”
Source: The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living
“When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, in exactly this moment, we shift from living for tomorrow to appreciating today.”
“When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied with being powerful or popular. We no longer fear criticism because we accept the reality of our human limitations. Once integrated, we are less often plagued with the desire to please others because simply being true to ourselves brings lasting peace. We are grateful for life and we deeply appreciate and love ourselves.”
Source: The ragamuffin Gospel
“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“When we accept that our parents will never be the way we want them to be, we can stop seeking love and acceptance from them and our hearts will become lighter.”
Source: Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself the Way You Have Always Wanted to Be Loved
“When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.”
“When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.”
“When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.”
“When we achieve our goal we are satisfied and build a good self-esteem”
“When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.”
Source: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
“When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.”
“When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.”
“When we act, are we considering the future implications and outcomes?”
“When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things.”
Source: Shantaram
“When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.”
Source: Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments
“When we act upon capital as stewards, we not only retain it - we multiply it. We grow it. We expand it. And we perpetuate it to impact more and more lives in meaningful ways.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.”
“When we add more panache to our lives, we feel more vibrant and alive. That confidence can’t help but spill out onto the world around us and attract new people, exciting opportunities, and good hair days. Who doesn’t want that?”
Source: InstaGrateful: Finding Your Bliss in a Social Media World
“When we addicts finally reach the point where we know we have a problem, and when we know we want to stop, from that point on we need to come up with a strong and reasonable excuse of some kind to go use, or go gamble. We become masters at generating these seemingly legitimate excuses for our addictive behavior. This is perhaps the most critical skill that our addiction employs - creative excuse making. Your addiction always is hiding in your brain waiting for an opening.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.”
Source: Recovering: A Journal
“when we adopt the biblical perspective of the cosmic temple, it is no longer possible to look at the world (or space) in secular terms. It is not ours to exploit. We do not have natural resources, we have sacred resources. Obviously this view is far removed from a view that sees nature as divine: As sacred space the cosmos is his place. It is therefore not his person. The cosmos is his place, and our privileged place in it is his gift to us. The blessing he granted was that he gave us the permission and the ability to subdue and rule. We are stewards.
At the same time we recognize that the most important feature of sacred space is found in what it is by definition: the place of God’s presence. The cosmic-temple idea recognizes that God is here and that all of this is his. It is this theology that becomes the basis for our respect of our world and the ecological sensitivity that we ought to nurture.”
Source: The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2)
“When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus, see what our Father is doing and do likewise (John 5:19). And what our Father is doing, it turns out, is fighting for orphans, making them sons and daughters.”
“When we adults think of children there is a simple truth which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life, childhood is life. A child isn’t getting ready to live, a child is living.
Children are constantly confronted with the nagging question, “What are you going to be?” Courageous would be the youngster who, looking the adult squarely in the face, would say, “I’m not going to be anything; I already am.”
Source: Notes on an Unhurried Journey
“When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.”
Source: Bind Amos and his velvet principles
“When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.”
“When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.”
“When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!”
“When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.”
“When we agree to enter into relationship it’s an agreement to throw away our self-serving desires for the purpose of working together. Throwing away self-serving desires is not throwing away your self-care and personal growth. It’s instead opening up and extending yourself to the other person to work with you to grow and vice versa while still maintaining your own growth.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When we align AI with the higher values of humanity and compassion, we create not just smart systems but transformative systems that advance justice, dignity, and the flourishing of all life, securing a brighter future for generations yet unborn.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance.”
“When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power”
“When we align our unique talents to serve humanity and address unmet needs, that’s when true wealth is created. This wealth that results from expressing your unique purpose is not temporary wealth but permanent wealth, because it is an expression of the incomparable you.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“When we align with love and beauty we instantly become the answer to every problem.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.”
“When we all help each other out, when we stand together, we are stronger together.”
“When we all lend a hand in helping in the community we improve everyone's quality of life.”
“When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“When we all play our part the world will run as designed. Do your part and do it now!”
“When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!”
“When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.”