W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.”
Source: Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.”
“When we integrate essential oils into our cooking, we open the door to greater health. Essential oils contain potent healing properties.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.”
“When we intentionally tune into one another
We enter another realm.
We begin to speak without words.
Feel without touch.
See with our eyes closed.
Our bond is soul deep
and our love is a retreat
from this world as we know it.”
“When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.”
“When we interpret and transform external events into internal experiences, we can navigate our emotional odyssey, reconstruct our sense of self, and integrate the past into a coherent narrative, making sense of the present and preparing for the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”
“When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.”
“When we interpret the violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross, we can see God doing in history what he did in a supreme way on Calvary. And this is how these violent divine portraits anticipate, and point us toward, the cross.”
“When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.”
“When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let’s make sure that wisdom wins.”
Source: Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“When we invest in active listening, the dividend is an expanded capacity for compassion.”
“When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.”
“When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.”
“When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.”
“When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development”
“When we invest, It’s about the big picture, and having a holistic approach to investing”
“When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone we’ve trusted with our heart. No one.”
“When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the inner man or woman. As a result we notice a measurable difference in our soul. We feel strengthened, filled with peace and joy. We possess spiritual energy and enthusiasm, both of which enhance our natural abilities. We can accomplish more than we otherwise could do on our own. We yearn to become a holier person.”
“When we invite The Lord of the Silence into a turbulent situation, God promises to give us peace that “surpasses all comprehension”.”
Source: The Lord of the Silence: Experiencing Intimacy With God In This Fast-Paced World
“When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.”
“When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.”
“When we journey to create our happiness- we stop hiding; we stop being a stranger to our soul and begin feeding ourselves with the nectar of love and self-commitment that we wholly deserve. The external vision of happiness is breakable, fragile, and hard to hold onto, yet what we conjure from within has the capacity to last because it is ours- woven by the tapestry of our own intelligent design.”
Source: Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose
“When we judge and condemn children for the place they were born, we destroy our own humanity and leave the world with no hope.”
“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”
“When we judge others we contribute to violence.”
“When we judge others we leave no room to love them.”
“When we judge someone, we don’t see them for who they are. We see them as we’ve imagined them through our lens of judgment. It’s a false image of who they really are, and if we only look for the bad in someone, that’s what we’re likely to find.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.”
Source: Community and Growth
“When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.”
“When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed. That was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science - in my opinion, this is just an opinion - that's where science leads you.”
“When we justify a flaw we are actually inventing a new one. When a woman neglects developing her own character, she not only chisels away her own reputation, but the reputation of everyone in her household.”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“When we keep needing to explain ourselves, we cannot truly be ourselves. For the wisdom of a river is wasted, on those invested in having us live with them under a rock.”
“When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“When we keep our stories locked up inside of us, darkness wins. We must share what we’ve lived, what we’ve learned, and how we have become stronger through our experiences, in hopes that it helps others find their voice, too.”
Source: The Book Satan Doesn't Want You To Read
“When we keep private matters to our self, then we never have to worry about unwanted voices discussing these matters when we’re not listening.”
“When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.”
“When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse.”
Source: Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
“When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'”
“When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.”
“When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.”
Source: Carnivorous Saint Gay Poems, 1941-1976
“When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways of seeing that. There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique. And then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and to say that that person is different from me and I don't like you, so let's battle.”
“When we kiss, it is not simply lips touching lips. It's my soul telling yours, "Welcome home.”
“When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.”
“When we kiss wholeheartedly,
no one knows who is kissing whom.”
“When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR-- breathing the life back into me.”
“When we kissed for the second time, we didn't stop (couldn't).”
“When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.”
Source: Stay