W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.”
“When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.”
“When we fail to act, fail to educate ourselves, or fail to include others, we contribute to the isolation and misunderstanding that hold people back.”
“When we fail to balance our decisions with emotion and reason, we prohibit our brains from calculating the good or harm of our choices. Robert in Flower Girl A Novel”
Source: Flower Girl A Novel
“When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.”
Source: The Four Virtues: Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation
“When we fail to live a life outside politics, we become a slave to it. While it’s certainly important to be aware of all the issues I’ve discussed here, it’s way more important to live a well-rounded, fully-realized life that’s regularly removed from all the drama.
In order to do this, we must learn to distinguish between being politically engaged and politically obsessed.”
Source: Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
“When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.”
“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)”
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“When we fail to tend to the fragilities of a flower as we become distracted by the noise of our minds, our plant is essentially dying. The quintessence of dying in the sense that we are failing to be mindful of the present moment, for life is the paradox of both living and dying concurrently. Just as we are living each moment, we are dying with every moment, and the essence of living is within each breath that ultimately comprises life as a whole.”
“When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“When we fail, we learn, we grow and we mature. It opens our eyes to new pathways toward reaching our goals and connecting the dots where we hadn't before.”
“When we fall from a state of happiness with what impatience do we bear our misfortunes!”
Source: The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour
“When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.”
“When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both men and women) is, What is it that we long for? Or perhaps, What are we lacking so that we can turn life in the direction we want? Creativity? Confidence? Authority? Recklessness? Irresponsibility? Or even darkness? Perhaps the lover is the outlaw in ourselves we don't quite have the nerve to claim. (p. 34)”
Source: Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession
“When we fall in love for the first time we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we so if we choose to love again.
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”
Source: Reached
“When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.”
“When we fall in love with people, in a lot of ways, we fall in love with what we want them to be, not what they really are.”
“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”
“When we fall, Jesus Christ will help us to rise up.”
“When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.”
Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)
“When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.”
“When we fall, we will rise again.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“When we fancy ourselves to be a particular thing with a name, we see ourselves as we would a cork in a stream. What we do not realize is that there is only stream. What we fancy as particular is, from the first, only movement, change and flow.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.”
“When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish”
Source: Mamet Plays: 2: Reunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond
“When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.”
“When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart.
When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind.
In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“When we feel abandoned along the road of indifference, we can jam our path into our thinking mind, breaking free from the shackles of inattention, getting our life together, uncovering our identity, and resurfacing in a world of sympathy and understanding. (”Life with sea view”)”
“When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.”
“When we feel anger and we use it well, that gives us huge dignity. When we feel fear and we use it well, it saves our lives. When we feel shame and we use it well, it gives us humility.”
Source: A Lean Mind: Managing the Mind Process to Reach Emotional Balance
“When we feel anger, irritation, or indignation arising in us, we pause. We stop and come back to our breathing straight away. We do not say or do anything when we are inhabited by this kind of energy, so we don’t escalate the conflict. We wait until we’re calm again. Being able to pause is the greatest gift. It gives us the opportunity to bring more love and compassion into the world rather than more anger and suffering.”
Source: How to Fight
“When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.”
Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
“When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult conditions the best we can, and we all have a lot to learn and unlearn.”
Source: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis
“When we feel betrayed by the vagaries of life, and our wet dreams turn out to be nightmares, let us keep eyes wide open and look for the sparks in the glance of the people. They not only can share a shard of oxytocin but also inspire us to appreciate the fragrance of the ordinary things we have ignored for so long. (“A handful of dust”)”
“When we feel compassion, we remember that we are not alone.”
Source: Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself
“When we feel confident that our skills can be a contribution to others, we discover another source of internal satisfaction.”
Source: Selling from Your Comfort Zone: The Power of Alignment Marketing
“When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).”
“When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.”
“When we feel devastated sometimes by the deafening noise of the daily commotion, the voices of the sea may help us to elope into a haven of new dimensions. Through our "third ear," we can hear inspirational sounds in the symphony of our expectations while discovering uncharted alleys in the chaos of our mind. ("Voices of the sea")”
“When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this endeavor, “otherness” might lend a helping hand in making the road less parching. (“He did not know that she knew”)”
“When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.”
“When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.”
Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
“When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.”
Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...
“When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“When we feel, it's intense and consuming. It devours us and drives us. And the strongest of our feelings is always the urge to be that which we were made to be.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart