W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not "seizing" it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.”
“When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.”
“When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives.”
“When we let the light of truth, reason, empathy, and altruism shine enough, the clouds will clear. When our arguments are naturally reflected in pristine thought, like water, we will have the rainbow we seek. This rainbow will not be one that somehow reaches a burning Bifrost of Asgard nor has leprechauns dressed in green. For even if there were leprechauns, they would wear red, not green.”
Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.”
“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.”
“When we lift each other up, we all rise.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God.”
“When we like someone, we focus on their intentions. When we don’t like someone, we focus on their actions.”
“When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our 'wishlist' because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.”
“When we limit ourselves by being the person we “should” be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, truths we need to slow down to excavate.”
Source: Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
“When we limit ourselves to the familiar and plausible, we also restrict our discovery of truly innovative ideas...”
Source: The Utility of Deep Divergence in Applied Creativity
“When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.”
“When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.”
“When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.”
“When we listen to other people’s stories, We open up some thing inside of us, hearing and healing our own.”
“When we listen to ourselves with callous objectivity—trying to diagnose and eradicate our problems with effective solutions—this “listening” rarely works. Think of the people who treat you this way: those who can’t see beyond their labels and judgments of you. Those who only “listen” for long enough to decide which advice to give you. It feels horrible. This same attitude prevents us from hearing our inner conversations. When we feel like someone has an agenda, we resist. Trying to fix ourselves while pretending to love ourselves doesn’t work. We don’t heal through objectification. We heal through understanding. We need to feel appreciated by the people who help us—ourselves included.”
Source: The Art of Talking to Yourself
“When we listen to people, we should not wait for what we want to hear. We should not surf on the sound of words without capturing their meaning, either. Listening must be a path to self-discovery. (“"Labyrinth of the mind"”)”
“When we listen to the higher mind, we are hearing God’s perspective, which is full of truth, kindness, and compassion”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.”
“When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.”
“When we listen to those stories, not only are we hearing tales of days gone by, we are also hearing the voices of all of those who lived before us. Those ancestors are not gone from our lives. They live in the stories, and they linger in our environments. They come to us in dreams and during ceremonies. They whisper to us in quiet moments and bring us comfort. One of my favorite stories is about a friend's experience with the ancestors. She was doing repatriation work, which involves caring for the remains of an ancestor until they can be properly buried with their people. In this instance, the ancestor that she was caring for had been part of a gruesome display in a museum. During her time with him, she remained in prayer when he came to her and gave her a message. First, he thanked her for bringing him back home. Then, he told her, "we dreamed you into the future." Our ancestors lived for us; they died for us; and they dreamed for us. Through their collective imaginings, we were all brought into being. What an incredible honor it is for us to carry their life forward through our own.”
Source: Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
“When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“When we listen, it's not linear, it's 360, and it's in a time-space continuum, so you don't have to create a list of priorities, because it's all important. You can deal with everything at any given time. Not only that, but it happens very simply, without effort.”
“When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“When we live free in the eyes of our spirit, everything superficial that we were once conditioned to believe no longer matters. We should live only with the intention of LOVE and channel that power outward into the world.”
“When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.”
“When we live in a state of dis-ease, we eventually end up creating disease. The genetically weaker parts of our body become more susceptible to ailment. Although the experience of falling ill has been challenging and difficult, it has nevertheless brought me an immense opportunity to dig deeper and connect with the wisdom within me. This is why I am a big believer of the concept of our unlimited nature. There is so much we are yet to discover about our true nature; the nature of being a soul and an empowered being, a conscious creator and connecting to the endless loving stream of the Universe.”
“When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.”
“When we live in an environment filled with honest love, we are much freer to give more of our effort to other aspects of the work [of God]. I doubt there can be happy life without love, and the more honest the love, the more fulfilling the life.
I wonder if this isn't the basis of the Savior's statement, "I am come that they might have life, that they might have it more abundantly." Isn't He the embodiment of love, and isn't it His greatest desire that all of us be full of love for one another?”
Source: Fire of Faith: The Memoirs of John H. Groberg
“When we live in ignorance, we live in darkness and that is where the devil rules.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.”
“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”
Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.”
Source: Two Treasures: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening and True Happiness
“When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.”
“When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie.”
“When we live our dream, nothing can wake us up.”
“When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.”
Source: Simple Abundance
“When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.”
“When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.”
“When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience.... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.”
“When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.”
“When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.”
“When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.”
“When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.”
“When we live with Integrity every word, thought and action springs from the Intelligence of the Heart and flows in harmony, enlightened by the pure light of Consciousness.”
Source: We are human angels
“When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.”
“When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.”