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 not together, we are settling - Nostalgia”
Source: Coming Home
“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”
“When we are of one mind,
we achieve the great.
When we are of one heart,
we achieve the extraordinary.
When we are of one soul,
we achieve the divine.”
“When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning there remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.”
Source: Selected poems
“When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.”
“When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.”
Source: Messages of God's Abundance
“When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.”
Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors
“When we are on tour we also take chances.”
“When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.”
“When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?”
“When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.”
“When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody”
“When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.”
“When we are personally transforming into a whole, healthy, and soulful being, we automatically want to help others to do the same thing as it strengthens and accelerates our own transformation.”
Source: Circles of Separation
“When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.”
Source: Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I
“When we are planted in His truth, we sow seeds of clarity and peace.”
Source: Stay Here: Staying in Christ, remaining anchored in His presence, and allowing His Word to come alive in our thoughts, hearts, and actions.
“When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.”
“When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.”
Source: The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon
“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”
Source: Jesus is Victor
“When we are practising mindful meditation, we need to be aware of our mind when it gets overexcited due to distractions, and when it becomes dull and starts to fall asleep. Excitement and mental dullness take our attention away from the present moment and have a significant part to play in the stress and anxiety that arises in our life.”
Source: Guide to the Mindful Way of Life
“When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God's word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“When we are present, life is also present.”
“When we are proud of someone, they bask in the glow of our appreciation, as do we when we are appreciated.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness…In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.”
Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
“When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.”
“When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.”
“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.”
“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving life do we find life, that the truest act courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others, God help us to be men.”
Source: The Words of César Chávez
“When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.”
“When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.”
Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
“When we are researching or having conversations, is our aim to learn and love or is it to prove a point?”
“When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.”
“When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.”
“When we are sad about our fate, we begin to seek even the smallest positive details, in order to keep our spirits up. Otherwise, one can go insane, worrying about it all day long, when one can’t change a thing.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“When we are sad and upset and believe that things are against us, we are attuning our minds to a certain frequency. That frequency then tends to invite in similar circumstances to support and reinforce the main frequency. These circumstances are real, as far as 'real' goes, to the person involved! The universe is really out to get the paranoid person!!!”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“When we are sad we understand life!”
“When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those who are able to see us in this way and we become able to know and value ourselves.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.”
“When we are shaming others for honouring their sensuality, we are perpetuating a problem that each of us is deeply desiring to heal within ourselves.”
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!”
Source: Living in the End Times
“When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.”
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”
“When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.”