W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we help one another, everybody wins.”
“When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.”
“When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.”
“When we help someone with genuine concern for her well-being, levels of endorphins, which are associated with euphoric feeling, surge in the brain, a phenomenon referred to as the helper’s high. In studies in which participants were asked to consciously extend compassion to another person, the reward centers of the compassionate brain were activated – the same brain system that lights up when we think of chocolate or another treat...The fulfillment Mother Teresa derived from her selfless service was a by-product, not the goal. Her primary motive was to bring help and solace to the destitute. This is the catch – a happy catch – to compassion: The more we are in it for other people, the more we get out of it ourselves.”
Source: A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
“When we help, we don’t just change lives; we shift the energy that flows through the world to shape a brighter tomorrow.”
“When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.”
“When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
Source: Hopkins: The Mystic Poets
“When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.”
“When we hide from our finances seemingly invisible problems become significant.”
“When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“When we hide racism under the guise of 'humor,' we insulate white racist privilege and make a mockery of civil rights.”
“When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.”
“When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.”
“When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.”
“When we hold a picture book, we have in our hands a pictured world full of ideas. We play with these ideas and play our own ideas around the pictured world. The more skilfull we are, and the more ideas the picture book contains, the more the ideas go on bouncing. And in the process we create something of our very own.”
Source: Looking at Pictures in Picture Books
“When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.”
“When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.”
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
“When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experiences in the same energy spectrum as that of peace, love and joy.”
Source: Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
“When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.”
Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey
“When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“When we home in on the sidelined, we can give them a glimmer of hope. Trapped in direst conditions and stuck in the darkest corners of their being, they sense a splinter of human warmth and a flake of joy, thus escaping the anonymity enforced by their social stance. ("Homeless, down in the corner")”
“When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Source: Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“When we honor our souls' truth, in whatever form that comes to us, and have the courage to follow where it leads, in spite of challenges, distractions or unexpected detours that come our way--the reply from the Spirit world is truly miraculous.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”
Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.”
Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)
“When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.”
Source: Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
“When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.”
“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”
“When we hurt children, it is God’s plan we
indirectly try to frustrate, since it is for His pleasure that people exist.”
“When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.”
“When we hygger, we frame the moment, give it our full attention, savour and hold it, in an awareness that the moment will pass.
We feel how one moment becomes layered on to the next; past and present mingled together - everything falling into place, into one accord.”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
Source: So You Want to Talk About Race
“When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.”
“When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.”
“When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.”
Source: What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace
“When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“When we imagine an alien planet, we rarely imagine it to be divided into countries—because that would be, you know, backward.”
“When we imagine fear as curiosity, we broaden our horizons”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.”
“When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.”
“When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.”
“When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.”
Source: Prayer
“When we incentivize the publication of new research, it's no wonder that people will be publishing more and more flawed new research because they have families to take care of and bills to pay.”
“When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.”
Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris
“When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time.”
Source: Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
“When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!”