W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven.”
“When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven, it is for us to follow it or not.”
“When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.”
Source: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
“When we are in the middle of heavy feelings, heavy thoughts, the world seems dark around us. But there is still lightness in the world, in ourselves, even though it may not be visible in the moment. We just need to hold ourselves up and hold on for the short ride, knowing that the sun is always shining even though all we see are clouds.”
Source: Rest & Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be
“When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we're not attached to how things should be done.”
Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“When we are ‘in the RED’ we can lose emotional control, overthink and get diverted. When we are ‘in the BLUE’, we can hold our nerve, maintain our focus and stay on task.”
Source: Perform Under Pressure: Change the Way You Feel, Think and Act Under Pressure
“When we are in touch with God's joy and peace in us, then we become whole and holy persons. Like living torches we radiate the light and heat of God's compassionate love.”
“When we are in touch with soul our world comes alive and glows. In birthing, tending and growing a soulful life we build a bridge between us and the soul of the world.”
Source: Ever Flowing On: On being and becoming oneself
“When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.”
Source: The Christian in society
“When we are influenced by the nameless Maiden, we can feel as if we are still
waiting to receive our gift of the eternal wisdom of adulthood. Patiently waiting for
the day where we will feel like a real adult, worthy of sitting at the grown-up’s side
of the table. At times, we can still feel like a child, uncertain, and floundering. An ‘imposter’ grown-up. There comes a time where we ultimately arrive at the moment
in our adult lives that we realise no one is coming. No one is coming to parent us,
to tell us to clean up after ourselves, to tell us to get off the couch, and get our butts
to work or to the gym. No one is going to admonish us if we eat too many chocolate
biscuits, drink too much wine, or stay out all night”
Source: When She Wakes, She Will Move Mountains - 5 Steps to Reconnecting With Your Wild Authentic Inner Queen
“When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.”
Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and
“When we are joyous of heart, we hear a resonance in the songs of the birds, see resonance in the opening of a flower, and feel it in the pressure of a friend’s hand.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“When we are least afraid, we have the most reason to fear.”
“When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.”
Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
“When we are little girls, our families, teachers, and peers insist that our loud voices, bold opinions, and strong feelings are “too much” and unladylike, so we learn to not trust our personalities.”
Source: Untamed
“When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.”
“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
“When we are looking at ideas, we really are thinking of three things. Are you doing something that seems consistent with the patterns of success? Are there reasons to believe you have or can access the right people to make it happen? Can we play a unique role in enabling success? We all have our rules of thumb, I suppose.”
“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )”
“When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“When we are, love is not.
When we are not, love is.”
“When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.”
“When we are making love, we are transmuting sensual energy into human experience, not only for pleasure but to stimulate creativity, wellbeing, and success in all areas of life.”
“When we are mentally prepared to receive pain, the impact is much lesser as compared to when we are unaware of the impending pain.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“When we are mindful to the various elements of the human experience and are acutely aware of the sacred responsibility we hold when we treat the mouth of another person – and we are humbled by the beauty, sensitivity and complexity of the design of the human body and spirit – it is in that moment that we do our best work and are in service to the well-being of the patient, and we are grateful for the fulfilling experience of restoring health to that person.”
Source: Mirror of the Body: Your Mouth Reflects the Health of Your Whole Body
“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.”
Source: The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation
“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
“When we are more aware of our sin than of the blood of Jesus Christ which removes our sin, relationship will remain superficial.”
Source: Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo”
Source: Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.”
“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.”
“When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.”
Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...”
Source: The Art of War
“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.”
Source: Jean Santeuil
“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.”
“When we are no longer children, we are already dead.”
“When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.”
“When we are no longer on autopilot, we are forced to deal with the discomfort of new action. Think of radical self-love as resistance training against our decades-old, tight, calcified thoughts. Adopting actions that promote radical self-love is comparable to working a muscle that has not been moved in years. It's going to be sore and tender. You are going to be tired. But the exhaustion and frustration will lessen over time, and there will be ease where there was once pain.”
Source: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves”
“When we are not awake to reality, we are living in the dream of the mind. When we are in the dream state, we do not know what we are doing, and are unaware of what is happening within and around us. We are simply acting out of deep programming, behaving according to conditioned patterns, living as if on auto-pilot.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.”
Source: Best of Dale Carnegie Vol-I
“When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.”
“When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.”
“When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.”
“When we are not sure, we are alive.”
Source: The Quiet American