W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”
Source: Sketchbook 1946-1949
“When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”
“When we treat God as a different identity, our thought process becomes dualistic in nature. This is due to the self ignorance, ego and immaturity; in simple words, less knowledge about our own immortality.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”
“When we treat people as objects, we dehumanize them. We do something really terrible to their souls and to our own. Martin Buber, an Austrian-born philosopher, wrote about the differences between an I-it relationship and an I-you relationship. An I-it relationship is basically what we create when we are in transactions with people whom we treat like objects--people who are simply there to serve us or complete a task. I-you relationships are characterized by human connection and empathy.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
“When we treat sensuality as the extension or accessory which is used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to a woman’s feminine essence, we miss the core of what truly makes her soul and body come alive.”
“When we tried to open the lock, we saw that is already open. And the problem we are trying to solve. It may be that there is no problem at all.”
“When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we’ve perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.”
Source: Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom
“When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.”
“When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.”
“When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.”
“When we truly forgive in our hearts, not only do we purify ourselves from the heavy burdens of negative karma but we begin to create a new space for positive energy to enter this world. When we forgive, we are no longer chained to the negative actions we have created in the past.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life
“When we truly love God, reverence becomes the foundation of our relationship with Him. Fear of displeasing Him drives us to live a life that honors His name and respects His Word. A heart that loves God trembles at the thought of disobedience, knowing it hurts the One who gave everything for us. Reverence is not about dread, but about deep respect and awe for who God is. In loving obedience, we approach Him with humility and speak of Him with honor. When our love for God is pure, our desire is to please Him, and His approval is all that matters.”
“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.”
“When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.”
Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
“When we truly understand that the tribe doesn't give a damn, we're free. There is no tribe, and there never was. Our lives are entirely up to us.”
“When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples of Christ becomes more joyful. Our lives take on new meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden.”
“When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.”
“When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!”
“When we trust our bodies to tell us about
hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.”
Source: Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist
“When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.”
Source: Essentials and Non-essentials in Religion: Six Lectures Delivered in the Music Hall, Boston
“When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.”
“When we trust our own gut and intuition things work out in greater flow.”
“When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!”
“When we trust someone or something, we place our faith and confidence in their word, reliability, and deeds. Without trust and rapport, a relationship can be cut short before it ever gets started.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.”
“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”
“When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.”
“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.”
“When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.”
Source: Children of Dune
“When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.”
“When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”
Source: The Language of the American South
“When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.”
“When we try to develop an understanding of things we can do and the powers we have, we will have several revelations about our real self.”
“When we try to do our best, we have an opportunity not only to improve the quality of our lives but also to improve the world. Our actions have ripples beyond our ability to measure.”
Source: The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery: The Essence of Mindfulness
“When we try to express communion with God in words, we rapidly reach the end of our capacities. But in the depths of our being Christ is praying for more than we imagine. Compared to the immensity of that hidden prayer of Christ in us, our explicit praying dwindles to almost nothing. That is why silence is so essential in discovery the heart of prayer.
Although God never stops trying to communicate with us, God never stops trying to communicate with us, God never wants to impose anything on us. Often God's voice comes in a whisper, in a breath of silence. Remaining in silence in God's presence, open to the Spirit, is already prayer.
It is not a matter of trying to obtain inner silence at all costs by following some method that creates a kind of emptiness within. The important thing is a childlike attitude of trust by which we allow Christ to pray within us silently, and then one day, we will discover that the depths of our being ar inhabited by a Presence.”
Source: Songs and Prayers from Taize: Keyboard Accompaniment
“When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.”
“When we try to find the good in ourselves and others, we pull those good traits up out of hiding and keep them alive, verses pulling out our bad qualities.”
“When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“When we try to forget, it’s often because we fear the weight of remembering. But the more we try to forget, the more we tend to remember.
Our attempts to escape the past only make it more present.”
Source: Protecting My Peace At All Cost: The Love I Deserve
“When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.”
“When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.”
“When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
“When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.”
“When we try to look out for our future, we end up locking the person we need the most out of our life and then running away from our problems.”
Source: Royals
“When we try to make everything clear, we make everything confused. If, however, we admit one mysterious thing in the universe, then everything else becomes clear in the light of that. The sun is so bright, so mysterious, that one cannot look at it, and yet in the light of the sun everything else is seen.”