W Quotes
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“When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.”
“When you can do nothing, what can you do?
[...] This is the most amazing, yet most obvious and logical answer: that in the certainty of death, one should get as much out of life as possible. Paradoxically it is the absence of choice in this matter that allows us to have more inner freedom.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
“When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.”
“when you can feel it in your bones, how it's safe to just believe in them… there's nothing in the world like that feeling… good intentions are like magic.”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.”
“When you can feel that you already have what you want, then you will attract what you want. In fact, you already have it. Just feel it now and feel it real.”
“when you can feel
the remarkable, uncommon
texture of your soul,
you can’t imagine letting anyone close
who isn’t perfectly meant to
intertwine with it”
“When you can figure it out, it's not love. When you can't, it is. Plus, you're screwed.”
“When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.”
“When you can find your own axis, you can revolve around it, for when you revolve your life on someone outside of you, you lose your own alignment. Just as the earth revolves around its own axis daily and through this eternal gentle revolving it also revolves around the sun, if you don’t find your own axis and you don’t gently revolve, you cannot be for anyone.
Then, once you have centered on your axis and someone else who has also centered on theirs is brought into your world, the two of you can come together and there is a collision of axes and you shift from your center. This is the sensation of ‘falling in love’.”
Source: Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
“When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.”
“When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.”
“When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.”
“When you can hold it, you'll have it”
Source: Big Dreams: The Road to My Million Dollar Dream
“When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.”
“When you can identify the behaviors that led to too much in your home, you can begin protecting the space between your things.”
Source: PopUpPurge(TM) Release Midlife Clutter & Reclaim Inner Clarity
“When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.”
“When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.”
“When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.”
“When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on.”
Source: Light of the Spirit
“When you can inspire other people to do something they couldn't do before, that's a very satisfying feeling. Sometimes I meet people and they're over the top excited to tell me how much they love Razor. There is no shortage of synthesizers out there, every week there's a new synthesizer, especially plugins - there is a lot of competition - so if you make somebody really excited about synthesizer it really feels good, so it's a source of a lot of pride and satisfaction.”
“When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and respect themselves; then you have arrived as a leader.”
“When you can just step back and see the big picture and know that good things will come, good things will go, bad things will come, and bad things will go, then your happiness doesn't rely on any kind of external situation. That's the key to lasting happiness.”
Source: Aloneness to Oneness: 22 Life Lessons to Change the Way You See the World
“When you can just step back and see the big picture and know that good things will come, good things will go, bad things will come, bad things will go... then your happiness doesn't rely on any kind of external situation. That's the key to lasting happiness.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.”
“When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.”
“When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.”
Source: Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger
“When you can leave a race track and there's people in tears because they won and (people) in tears because they got crashed, you know, that's what brings us to the race track.”
“When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.”
“When you can live forever what do you live for?”
“When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.”
Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of
“When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.”
“When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.”
“When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.”
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.”
“When you can no longer count the peaceful moments in your day, and life becomes a wonderful place of clear thoughts and calm. You know things are as right as they should be.”
“When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.”
“When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time, then you are a time spender.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you can overcome serious relationship problems, do not remember the difficult times, but think of the joy of having gone through that phase in life. When you escape a serious accident, do not be thinking about the trauma it may have caused, but of the miracle that helped you get away. When walking away from a health scare, do not think of the suffering that was faced, but the blessing of God that allowed the cure. Make sure you put in your memories of life the good things that emerged in the midst of difficulties. They are a testament to your ability to win races and will give you confidence… which will help in any situation, at any time, before any obstacle.”
“When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.”
“When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“When you can prove your love for God by your service and attitude to others, your service has started”
“When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart… the whispers of god.”
Source: Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation
“When you can see God in small things, you'll see God in all things.”
Source: Look into the stillness
“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories