W Quotes
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“When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.”
“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.”
Source: We Have Seen the Lord!: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
“When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.”
“When we believe that the difference of opinion occurs due to only our own mistake; then we will reach the end of the worldly life. There is no other solution. To solve is our a hidden egoism. Why do you have to look for a solution?”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”
“When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.”
“When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'”
“When we believe, trust, and take direction from the perspective that our setbacks are in fact setups for success, then it increases the likelihood of future victories.”
“When we believe we are losing control, we grab on tight. When our greatest fear comes upon us, we clench our fist and teeth, close our eyes and hold on. We must learn how to let go. When the time comes for growth and change, we must have the courage and faith to let go. Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better.”
“When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.”
“When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.”
“When we better ourselves we are improving our world!”
“When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.”
“When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.”
“When we blend learnings with experience, new understandings emerge.”
Source: Quantraz
“When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.”
“When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
“When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.”
“When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.”
Source: The diary of a magus
“When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.”
“When we break 5M’s of Manufacturing Efficiency - Men, Machine, Materials, Methods & Money to personal level, the first two M’s will spell Minutes & Mind, and rest remain constant!”
“When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.”
Source: The Idler in France
“When we bring businesses together in symbiotic relationships, we end up with a system that is much greater than the sum of its parts.”
“When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.”
Source: Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
“When we bring in our magical allies like herbs and oils, the difference is like walking into a party on your own where you know no one or walking into the same party with an entourage of friends.”
Source: The Book of Candle Magic: Candle Spell Secrets to Change Your Life
“When we bring love and compassion to our community, it raises the consciousness for everyone.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied”
“When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal.”
“When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!”
Source: Selections and Essays
“When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.”
“When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.”
“When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.”
“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”
“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.”
“When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.”
“When we bury emotions deep inside our physical bodies without going through the process of healing, understanding, or forgiving, these emotions create deficits in our energy. Little by little, these unresolved emotions become parts of our physical self creating wounds in our souls that are hard to remove.”
Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.”
“When we bury the X, we uncover complexity and recognize the need for responsibility.
Be brave.”
“When we calculate risks and incentives and align our desires with reality to achieve inner peace, we may reach self-mastery. Precision offers clarity and reduces insecurity. But we must not ignore the emotional bonds with the lived experience of love and joy. They often transcend metrics, preferring a balance between a rational approach and the priorities of our intuition. (“ Measuring space »)”
“When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.”
“When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both – that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy. In the case of arate, the direction of the "because" can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.”
Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.”
“When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.”
“When we came and rented the North Perth home, my father had a little ice chest, and on top of the ice chest was a radio. And we were sitting at our lunch time on Sunday eating dinner after church, and my Mum says, ‘Look where we’ve ended up. We’ve got a table cloth on our table, we’ve got food on our plate, and we’re listening to music.’ That was a big thing for my mother. - Mrs Helen Doropoulos, Greece”
Source: Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
“When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition