W Quotes
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“When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)
“When we paint, we paint with truth -
and when live, we live without it;
so we dream and yet not sleep
for sleep takes our dreams;”
“When we paint, we paint with truth -
and when live, we live without;
so we dream and yet not sleep
for sleep takes our dreams
and does not trade it with doubt.”
“When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.”
“When we pair modern tech like Blockchain technology, cryptography and data analytics with the ancient practice of bartering, a lot of business opportunities emerge.”
“When we pamper our wants and desires, God is not with us, but when we subject our wants and desires to starvation, God will bring about His Glory through us!”
“When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.”
Source: Great Lives: Jesus Bible Companion: The Greatest Life of All
“When we partake of her fruit as Eve did, our eyes are open to all knowledge and understanding. We become divine. We learn to look inward rather than outward for our reference points and find we are connected to all that there is—both the physical and nonphysical. There is no need to worship anyone or anything outside of ourselves for all is made of the same essence.
And she is returning.
This time she will be coming with her own Elohim. These powerful ones will set the record straight about our origins and history, including religion. They will set the record straight about the Heresy of Monotheism—that the One Original Source of All Creation does not equate to one male god who demands obedience and worship at the threat of torture and death.
-Excerpt from “Roots Too Deep for the Redactors,” featured in Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.”
“When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise,’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.”
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”
“When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.”
“When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“When we passed Camp Johnson, the military compound, I couldn’t believe that I was seeing two bodies suspended from the high security fence near the gate. On Broad Street, which is the main drag in Monrovia, there were streetlights but to my horror they were being used as gallows. Some still had bodies hanging from them, which appeared bloated and badly decomposed. Other bodies were decomposing in the gutters, with runoff water swirling around them. The decaying process doesn’t take long in this tropical heat, and it was obvious from the sickenly smell that permeated the air that they had been dead for a while. The city appeared to be under Martial Law with soldiers assisting the police, directing traffic. Lacking traffic lights each intersection was congested with cars, horn blaring and nobody moving. It was a mess and heavily armed, rag-tag soldiers, were now, everywhere.”
“When we pause long enough to contemplate the root cause of our coping mechanisms, we see they're rarely random. They're signals meant to draw our attention to old wounds.”
Source: Stop It Swap It: How to Short-Circuit the Negativity Spiral in 10 Seconds or Less
“When we pause to think, we are compelled to admit the existence of consciousness as the primal and surest fact. What we know of the great world around is known through our states of consciousness, and if we seem to be living a merely objective life, amidst external things, it is because we have become oblivious of the real nature of experience.”
“When we pay attention and listen instead of denying, suppressing, fearing, or disliking our spontaneous feelings, we gain great access to our natural intuition.”
“When we pay attention to our breathing, our in-breath and out-breath become peaceful and relaxed. When we walk with attention and we just walk without thinking or being carried away by anything, we already begin to heal.”
Source: Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
“When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.”
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path.”
“When we pay focused attention to our bodily sensations, we can recognize the ebb and flow of our emotions and, with that, increase our control over them. (210)”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“When we pay professionals to grow our food, prepare our food, create our entertainment, make our clothes, build our houses, clean our houses, treat our illnesses, and educate our children, what's left? What's left on which to base community? Real communities are interdependent.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Eisenstein, Charles
“When we pay professionals to grow our food, prepare our food, create our entertainment, make our clothes, build our houses, clean our houses, treat our illnesses, and educate our children, what's left? What's left on which to base community? Real communities are interdependent...It is strangers whom we pay to perform [these] functions. It doesn't really matter who grows your food - if they have a problem, you can always pay someone else to do it. This phrase encapsulates much about our modern society...we can always pay someone else to do it. As an individual, it is hard not to feel dispensable, a cog in the machine. We feel dispensable because, in terms of survival, in terms of all the economic functions of life, we are dispensable.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Eisenstein, Charles
“When we penetrate the smokescreen of controversies regarding false accusations, ‘recovered memories’, ‘recanters’, references to ‘satanic ritual abuse’ and the incorporation of elements of cultural myths into some accounts, we are left with the reality that in the vast majority of cases it is not the over-reporting or exaggeration of trauma that is the principal problem. Rather it is society’s unwillingness to know, the perpetrators’ strongly motivated efforts to hide their criminal acts, and the relative ease they are often afforded by societal institutions and practices in doing so. - The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Viewpoint)”
“When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,
they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.”
Source: The Analysis of Mind: Top Philosophy Collections
“When we perceive peace within ourselves, we reflect it outwards.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“When we perceive ‘scarcity’, we perceive the Void; when we perceive ‘abundance’, we perceive the TRUTH. Only one of these things can be trusted.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the ocean is also within us. The idea that things exist outside of our Consciousness is an illusion. Ancient wisdom traditions have known this for centuries, and even modern science has recognized that our sense organs merely receive information and project it within our own minds. Vision does not take place in the eye, but in an area located in the back of the brain. Everything that we perceive to be “out there” is being experienced “in here.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.”
“When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.”
“When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“When we pillow our heads at night, we need to have things that give us peace. Many such things are available, but one of the best is the simple peace of knowing that we've done things that day that were not easy for us to do. If we can see ourselves as people who are learning little by little to master the hard parts of life, we will live with a greater confidence and be able to serve those around us more helpfully. The ancient adage is true which tells us, "A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
“When we place children to fill beds, we are creating a system of temporary housing rather than a long-term solution of finding children their forever, safe, and loving families.”
Source: Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
“When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.”
Source: Mad Love
“When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.”
Source: What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.”
“When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.”
“When we place someone on a pedestal, we elevate them almost to the status of a god. Our perception of them goes from one extreme to another. This paragon of the ideal either walks on water or is a monster We trust them; then we don’t. They can’t possibly live up to the image we created of them or meet all of the expectations we have because what we want is the fantasy—not the human being donning the costume. We don’t really know the human being behind the fantasy. All the while, we may swear that we love them, but we can’t love someone we don’t see.”
Source: Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery fom Addiction
“When we place the Bible on equal footing with God, we become paralyzed by how to deal with it--because any criticism of the Bible becomes criticism of God himself.
The cure for the religion of Biblicism is the realization that Jesus is the inerrant Word of God, and the Bible is just a collection of inspired and useful writings that introduce us to him.
Let me be clear: whenever we find tension between something Jesus taught and something taught elsewhere in the Bible, the tiebreaker always goes to Jesus. Always.”
Source: Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
“When we place the essentials activities of life within the context of a Consciously Designed Home, it becomes easier to achieve our lifestyle goals and dreams.”
Source: Conscious Home Design: The Guide to Living Your Best Life by Designing for Happiness, Health, and Relationship Success
“When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.”
“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”
Source: The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance
“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”
Source: The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
“When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.”
“When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.”
“When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.”
“When we play it safe, we sabotage our chance to make our mark in a memorable, authentic way. Health care organizations confront pressures to provide more responsive, personal care with cost efficiency, striving to provide the industry’s “patient-centered care” goal. However, when every hospital system and specialty clinic cautiously claims to provide “patient-centered care”— because all of their competitors claim to provide “patient-centered care”—their claim becomes so safe that they disappear into the din of their competitors’ identical claims.”
Source: Relevance: Matter More
“When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.”
“When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.”