W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.”
“When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.”
“When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience “all circus around us” does not exist either.”
“When we realize that we’re in relationship with everyone around us we become open to the mirror that the relationship offers, and it gives us an idea of what we need to grow to our highest. These interactions are great but our soul eventually gets to a place where we’re ready for partnership, and when we choose to go into partnership that's a higher level of union.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.”
Source: Masquerade and other stories
“When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.”
Source: Endgame
“When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.”
“When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!”
“When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .”
“When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.”
“When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.”
“When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.”
“When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.”
“When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.”
“When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.”
Source: The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen
“When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.”
“When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.”
“When we really see each other, we want to help each other.”
“When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.”
“When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.”
“When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are. [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.”
“When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others”
Source: Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships
“When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.”
“When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.”
Source: Women in Love
“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That’s how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter. We do not shout them to each other. We may shout about them to others, but quietness is the hallmark of love.”
Source: Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality
“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.”
“When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had.”
“When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
“When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.”
“When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.”
“When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.”
“When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.”
“When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?”
“When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.”
Source: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
“When we recognize a terrene bubbling with freshness, spontaneous joy, and communal spirit behind the wall of superficiality, we must not stop disrupting our cycle of overthinking and isolation and welcome the presence and inspiration of others. ("'Is that all there is ?").”
“When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.”
“When we recognize laziness causes detrimental effects, it can motivate us to change.”
“When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.”
“When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.”
Source: Penetrating Wisdom: The Aspiration of Samantabhadra
“When we recognize that we are not responsible for our childhood deprivations, and that we are entitled to feel anger (but not to act on it - awareness is not a license to kill), then we are able to let go of that anger and not be controlled by it.”
Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
“When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.”
“When we recognize that what we think that we know, is just an illusion, and we are capable of laying bare our psychological discomforts, we can manage to choose a projection into the future and sail without being shipwrecked on the cliffs of mental enslavement. ("The freedom of new thinking")”
“When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When we recorded [Moana], I would do all of the stuff and then save all the big screaming for last so that you can really blow it out and ratchet it up every time, get that perfect panicked pitch.”