W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we see beauty, we’re seeing a part of ourselves, a reflection in time. Ask me the time, Zara.”
“What time is it?”
“It’s perhaps a time.”
“Perhaps a time, what kind of a time is perhaps a time?” Zara asks, somewhat curiously amused.
“The ‘that’ part, that’s the part of the kind of ‘perhaps a time’ we’re talking about.”
“What’s the ‘that’ part?”
“It’s the part found in anytime.”
“Anytime?” A confused look knits on Zara’s brow.
“Yes, ‘perhaps a time’ is ‘anytime’, but you need a place, ‘anyplace’ to find anytime.”
“Anyplace to find anytime? Do you have any idea how mad you sound?”
“Oh, it’s such a colorful thing this void of mine. It’s all sparkly, fluffy and light, twinned with the inevitability of life. Besides, I only sound mad when I’m ‘anywhere’, dear.”
“Where the hell is anywhere?” Zara asks, this time very confused.
“Sometimes it’s up, sometimes it’s down. Anywhere oh anywhere a place we sow confusion all around.”
“When we see beings as belonging to a particular group, for instance, we start to believe there's something fundamental and biological that unites all the creatures in that group, that there's some invisible essence that makes a dog a dog and a cat a cat. We do the same thing with humans: if we are told that a category is important, we infer that the people in the people in that category share a fundamental essence. We essentially them. And the more a category is emphasized, the more we think its members have a unifying thread.”
Source: The End of Bias: A Beginning: How We Eliminate Unconscious Bias and Create a More Just World
“When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.”
“When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.”
“When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.”
“When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!”
Source: He Still Moves Stones
“When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly. We must also view ourselves from God's perspective: lovingly, tenderly, and patiently. We can do the same with our spouses and other children or family members.”
Source: Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage
“When we see grey clouds and lightning causing a storm; God shows us His rainbow in its most beautiful form.”
“When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.”
“When we see insignificant data points are robbing us of spontaneity and joy, we must capture our intuition's exhilaration to navigate the ups and downs of life with grace and agility. ("Digging for white gold" )”
“When we see land as a community to which we belong,
we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved
by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined
in terms of things natural, wild, and free.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.”
Source: Querelle
“When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming responsibility, the foundation of all love in our life is the same. There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we choose to love.”
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection, and a unity that allows us to see beyond the various forms, as well as the various ways that someone may act out when they have forgotten their connection and their formless nature. If you look at another in this light, you will see a Being that is just like you, looking back at you”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“When we see one another in heaven, we will have beautiful bodies that will far surpass the beauty of our bodies on this earth.”
Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
“When we see only what we want to see in the Bible, it loses all power to transform us.”
“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”
Source: God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times
“When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.”
“When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.”
“When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.”
“When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“When we see our truths as ever-deepening, as beginnings rather than endings, we can hold our most prized truths more loosely. Absolute truths become humble absolutes.”
Source: Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life
“When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.”
Source: To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren
“When we see people as human and not citizens of another country, we fulfill the values of humanity.”
“When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.”
“When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.”
“When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
“When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.”
“When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.”
“When we see somebody in a difficult situation, we can understand them only if we had the same experience and had lived through it. Otherwise, we just think we know.”
“When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.”
“When we see something that beautiful, we call it breathtaking, but we really should call it breath-giving, my friend Rabbi Sharon Brous says to me. Because when suffering constricts the heart, awe stretches it back out, making us more compassionate, more loving, more present.”
“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?”
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“When we see that the story is the way we live our lives, only then can we start to change, a day at a time. We try to help people like us, try to make the world around us a little better. It's then that the story begins.”
Source: There There
“When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.”
Source: In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
“When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’”
“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.”
Source: The Four Loves
“When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.”
“When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.”
“When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.”
Source: Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
“When we see the reality which can’t be explained by our existing faith and beliefs, we drop or modify our beliefs and try to understand the world by using our renewed beliefs. Our faith is not hard-coded but changes with time like a living entity.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves it to protect others.”
“When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.”
“When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?”
“When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?”
“When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.”
“When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.”
Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering