W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Unum necessarium. Deus justificatus. Letters to Warner and Jeanes. Golden grove, and hymnes
“When you lie, it makes you feel in charge of your life. Telling lies is very seductive to orphans. I know because I tell them, too. I love to lie. When you lie, you feel as if you have cheated fate - your own, and everybody else's.”
Source: The Cider House Rules
“When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.”
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
“When you light up the lamp of awareness the ignorance and fear disappear.”
“When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”
“When you like someone or something, it is an affection for it. When you love someone or something, it is the affection for its soul.”
Source: Finding Identity
“When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.”
“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
“When you like something, you should do it all night long.”
“When you like what you like, it makes it easy for your husband to shop for you!”
“When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.”
Source: Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
“When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.”
“When you linger in tormented darkness, remember, the dawning always arrives on time.”
“When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.”
“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
“When you listen carefully and hear the words you speak and thoughts you think, you could be very surprised indeed.”
“When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.”
“When you listen carefully to this and put it correctly into practice, you will certainly automatically receive the blessings! When you assimilate loving kindness in you heart, you will be loved by all beings. When you hold compassion in your heart, everyone will cherish you as their own child. When you keep impartiality in your heart, you will be free from enmity and prejudice. When you fill your heart with sympathetic joy, your actions will be in harmony with everyone. When you give up the thought of harming others, you will meet less hostility. When you tame your mind and are very generous, many followers will gather around you. (p. 107)”
Source: Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
“When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.”
“When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.”
“When you listen to an old record, there can be no illusion that you are present at a performance. You are listening through a gray drizzle of static, a sound like rain. You can never forget how far away you are. You always hear it, the sound of distance in time. But what is the connection between the listener and the musician? Does it matter that one of you is alive and one is dead, and which is which?”
Source: White Tears
“When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.”
“When you listen to early Black Sabbath, you know that the main difference between them & you is that somebody bought them guitars and microphones. They're not smarter than you; they're not deeper than you; they're a fuck of a lot richer than you, but other than that, it's like listening to the inside of your own mind. So when they write songs, they sing about wizards. And witches. And robots.”
Source: Master of Reality
“When you listen to good music in the morning makes a good day.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“When you listen to me, I think the stars will fall.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“When you listen to me, I think the stars will fall.' He followed me down so he spoke just above my ear. 'I wish I could capture this moment somehow.'
'Well, now I want to lift my head again.'
'Why am I not surprised?' The sweep of his touch drifted lower, now below my navel. 'But if you did, then you wouldn't find out what I have planned. And if I know anything about you, it's that you're curious.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.”
“When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.”
“When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.”
“When you listen to people who have accomplished so much, the one thing they always say is, "I didn't let anybody stop me." I really, really, steadfastly believe that.”
“When you listen to Prince you have no idea what decade it's from. It's beyond time.”
“When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.”
“When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.”
“When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.”
“When you listen to tax-cut rhetoric, remember that giving one class of taxpayer a break requires - now or down the line - that an equivalent burden be imposed on other parties. In other words, if I get a break, someone else pays. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can however, determine who pays for lunch.”
“When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.”
“When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.”
“When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.”
“When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They don't necessarily have to know exactly what each song is about. It's their way of interpreting of interpreting different feelings or emotions.”
“When you listen to the song of your heart, the river runs within you, wild with ecstasy.”
“When you listen to the sound of waves at the beach, you feel relaxed because your mind doesn’t have to agree, disagree or judge that sound.
Human beings are nothing but waves of five elements. Why does your mind go in overdrive when their sounds fall in your ear? You will feel tremendously relaxed when you stop agreeing. disagreeing or judging every human sound that falls in your ears.”
“When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.”
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.”
“When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.”
Source: A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage
“When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.”
“When you listen, you are still.
When you listen, you separate from your ego.
When you listen, you learn a thing or two.
You strengthen the muscle of empathy,
And lengthen the muscle of patience.
You allow others to feel seen and heard.
And when others are seen and heard, they soften.
And when they soften, they relinquish their armor.
When the armor is gone, you see each other’s humanity.
And when your humanity is exposed, your heart expands
And you see yourself in the other’s eyes.”
Source: Rest & Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be